Nadine Gordimer Quotes

• La verdad no siempre es belleza, pero el hambre de ella sí lo es.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Truth

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.121, A&C Black

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• A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

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  Truly Living, Humans, Human Beings

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• My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

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  Respuestas

  Judea Pearl, Ruth Pearl, Ehud Barak, Sylvia Boorstein, Edgar M. Bronfman (2005). “I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl”, p.187, Jewish Lights Publishing

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

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  Aging, Passages

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• I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

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  "Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer: 'I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid'" by Justin Cartwright, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 14, 2014.

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

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  Cumpleaños, Gente, Dar

  Nadine Gordimer (2005). “Get a Life”

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• what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.

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  Writing, Character, Artist

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.140, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

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  Home, Long, Forever

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Lying Days”, p.375, A&C Black

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• The facts are always less than what really happened.

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  Facts, Happened

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.76, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Los libros no necesitan pilas

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  Book, Batteries, Needs

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• Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

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  Hearing, Keenness, Revive

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Conservationist”, p.112, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Escribir es dar sentido a la vida.

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  Writing, Make Sense

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.139, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

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  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “None to Accompany Me”, p.310, A&C Black

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• Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

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  Bleach, Next, Bonsai

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

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  Writing, Political, Purpose

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• Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

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  Desvanece

  Nadine Gordimer (1983). “Selected Stories”, Viking Press

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• Un desierto es un lugar sin expectativas.

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  Expectations, Desert

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.313, A&C Black

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• Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

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  People, Horror, Newspapers

  Nadine Gordimer (2013). “A Sport of Nature”, p.32, A&C Black

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• Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

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  Art, Celebration, Defeat

  "Writing and rootlessness". Interview with Michael March, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2004.

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• 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 law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

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  Law, White, Judging

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• There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Moral, Authority

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.418, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Air, Flames, Needs

  Nadine Gordimer (1998). “The House Gun: A Novel”, p.54, Macmillan

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• Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

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  Moving, Self, Ends

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• The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

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  Tension, Standing Apart, Standing

  Nadine Gordimer (1983). “Selected Stories”, Viking Press

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• 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 written from different stages of your ability.

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  Libro, Escritura, Diferente

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