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“I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.”
Source: The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
“The malediction is upon him even if the law does not exact it.”
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“What is shameful cannot be shared. What is shameful, separates.”
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Source: The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
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“Everyone wears the uniform of how he sees himself or how he disguises himself.”
Source: The House Gun
Source: Burger's Daughter
“I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.”
Source: The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.”
Source: The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008
“The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.”
Source: Selected Stories
Source: Living in Hope and History
“Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.”
Source: Burger's Daughter
“I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.”
Source: Writing and Being
“Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.”
“Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.”
Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008
“Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.”
Source: Six Feet of the Country: Fifteen Short Stories
“People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.”
Source: Get a Life
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
“The facts are always less than what really happened.”
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
Source: Burger's Daughter
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008
“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.”
Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008
Source: Living in Hope and History
“Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.”
Source: Get a Life
Source: Selected Stories
“You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.”
Source: Burger's Daughter
“in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.”
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
“when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.”
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
Source: Burger's Daughter
Source: Living in Hope and History
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
Source: Selected Stories
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“Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.”
Source: The Conservationist
“Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.”
Source: Selected Stories