South African - Novelist | November 20, 1923 -
A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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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.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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