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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
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