Nadine Gordimer Quotes
Nadine Gordimer Quotes
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
1882 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 course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
2819 Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
3154 Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
4359 I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
1997 Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.
2387 Books don't need batteries.
4096 Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
3952 You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
2595 I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.
2567 The creative act is not pure.
1330 Music has no limits of a life-span.
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