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> [Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/perhaps-there-is-no-other-way-of-reaching-some-understanding-of-being/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

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## More by Nadine Gordimer

> [Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/fiction-is-a-way-of-exploring-possibilities-present-but-undreamt-of/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/i-m-a-candle-flame-that-sways-in-currents-of-air-you-can-t-see-you/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [The facts are always less than what really happened.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/the-facts-are-always-less-than-what-really-happened/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [“Death's the discarder.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/death-s-the-discarder/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/it-was-a-miracle-it-was-all-a-miracle-and-one-ought-to-have-known/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/mostly-i-m-interviewed-by-white-people-and-identified-with-white/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/i-would-be-guilty-only-if-i-were-innocent-of-working-to-destroy/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [“Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/death-is-really-the-mystery-of-life-isn-t-it/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/sincerity-is-never-having-an-idea-of-oneself/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [“you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/you-like-to-have-some-cup-of-tea-july-bent-at-the-doorway-and-began/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/afrikaner-women-are-lower-than-rats-closer-related-to-plants-just-fit/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/the-country-of-the-tourist-pamphlet-always-is-another-country-an/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/well-you-know-in-the-fundamentalist-milieu-of-the-afrikaners-there/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/sentiment-is-for-those-who-don-t-know-what-to-do-next/)

[Nadine Gordimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadine-gordimer/)

> [Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadine-gordimer/success-sometimes-may-be-defined-as-a-disaster-put-on-hold-qualified/)

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