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Life Quotes by 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…
- 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…
- Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
- Music has no limits of a life-span.
- Writing is making sense of life.
- September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem,…
- Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
- 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…
- Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle