Nadine Gordimer Quotes
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
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Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.
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This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.
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He was a real thin, real great-in-shape guy, ... Our heart goes out when something like that happens. You usually just imagine one of our guys. It just devastates everybody. It's a huge loss to everybody.
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Does it hurt?” He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. “Only when I laugh.” “I’ll try not to be funny.” “Epic fail, beautiful.
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Success depended once again on speed and deception, qualities that residents of the Shenandoah Valley were beginning to associate with Thomas Jackson.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
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The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
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God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.
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If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.
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For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
