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One Quotes by Nadine Gordimer
- In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of…
- Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's…
- Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
- People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
- Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
- 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.
- The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
- 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…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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