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Nadine Gordimer (Writer)

A desert is a place without expectation.

— Nadine Gordimer wit

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

— Nadine Gordimer gift

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 imagination

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

— Nadine Gordimer beauty

The facts are always less than what really happened.

— Nadine Gordimer real

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

— Nadine Gordimer live

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

— Nadine Gordimer character

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

— Nadine Gordimer innocence

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 women

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

— Nadine Gordimer life

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

— Nadine Gordimer change

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

— Nadine Gordimer author

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

— Nadine Gordimer creativity

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 mind

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

— Nadine Gordimer fear

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 writer

The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

— Nadine Gordimer truth

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