Nadine Gordimer Quotes

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• There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
• Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
• I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
• Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
• If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals…
• 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…
• Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
• 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.…
• 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…
• Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s…
• I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
• A desert is a place without expectation.
• I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
• You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
• Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
• The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is…
• And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the…
• The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by…
• A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
• Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

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