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Nadine Gordimer quotes

South african Novelist November 20, 1923

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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and plac? a single book written from different stages of your ability. Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer quote: "Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and..."
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. Nadine Gordimer
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. Nadine Gordimer
If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down. Nadine Gordimer
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer quote: "Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self"
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer quote: "Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer quote: "The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer quote: "Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter."
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter. Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer quote: "Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold...."
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be. Nadine Gordimer
It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing. Nadine Gordimer
That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins. Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer quote: "A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. Nadine Gordimer
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. Nadine Gordimer
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer

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