Quotes by Nadine Gordimer

About Nadine Gordimer:

Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

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Pero las cuestiones humanas no conducían a conclusiones tajantes, al trazado de una línea ni a una suma total. Parecían resolverse, disolverse, cuando sólo se estaban formando de nuevo, reuniéndose en otra combinación. Incluso cuando estamos mu...

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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

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My work means that we have lived in different parts of the world and in each there has always been something to be afraid of. Gangsters, extremist political groups Right and Left tossing bombs into restaurants, hijacks, holdups, a city plumb on the l...

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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

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I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

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I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.

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The creative act is not pure.

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I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

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Communists are the last optimists.

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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

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I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

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How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

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Music has no limits of a life-span.

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Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?

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I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.

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

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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.

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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.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

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Author Bio

  • NameNadine Gordimer
  • DescriptionSouth african writer
  • BornNovember 20, 1923
  • DiedJuly 13, 2014
  • CountrySouth Africa
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Novelist
  • WorksThe Conservationist; Burger's Daughter; July's People; A Sport Of Nature; The Pickup; Get A Life
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Officer Of The Legion Of Honour; Commandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; WH Smith Literary Award; James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Man Booker Prize; Central News Agency Literary Award; Nelly Sachs Prize; Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards; Rome Prize