Alienation Quote by Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— 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.

— Nadine Gordimer

The facts are always less than what really happened.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Death's the discarder.”

— 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.

— Nadine Gordimer

Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

— Nadine Gordimer

“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.”

— Nadine Gordimer

“Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?”

— Nadine Gordimer

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

— 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…

— Nadine Gordimer

Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

— 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…

— Nadine Gordimer