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Nadine Gordimer

South African,  Novelist
Total Quotes : 16
Desert Expectation Place

A desert is a place without expectation.

- Nadine Gordimer

Never Over Individual

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

- Nadine Gordimer

Fear Hate Brings

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

- Nadine Gordimer

Me Someone Cannot

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

- Nadine Gordimer

Characters Learned Stories

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

- Nadine Gordimer

Mind Committed Trails

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

- Nadine Gordimer

Creative Act Read Eden

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

- Nadine Gordimer

Beauty Truth Always

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

- Nadine Gordimer

Like Moral Authority

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

- Nadine Gordimer

I Am Side Which

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

- Nadine Gordimer

Best Convenience Charter

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 that be and the unwritten charter.

- Nadine Gordimer

Measure How How Much

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

- Nadine Gordimer

Birthday Gift Give

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

- Nadine Gordimer

Always Than Less

The facts are always less than what really happened.

- Nadine Gordimer

Small Making Area

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

- Nadine Gordimer

Responsibility Outside

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

- Nadine Gordimer