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Nadine Gordimer Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: south african
Birth: November 20, 1923

Topics

Mind Eye Sand Fade Out Committed

I'm a really big fan of facial hair.

Hair Big Big Fan Fan Facial Really

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

History Memory Generation Skin Human

Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.

Art School Go Why Never Same

My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time is twilight, when the setting sun is filtering through the palm trees. Back in the day, we'd be listening to the Vandals, X, or Farside. Now it would be L.A.-based bands like Dum Dum Girls, Foxygen, or Ty Segall.

Car Music Time Day Sun Listening

Making art is different for everyone.

Art Everyone Different Making

One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Uniform Jacket She Old Years Very

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Great Wealth Well Known Comforter

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Relationship Death War World Doing

Al Gore didn't need to distance himself from Bill Clinton when he ran for president in 2000 because, when he ran, the country was in very good shape: strong economically and not at war. He did it anyway, and it was, in many people's estimate, mine included, one of the reasons he lost.

Good War People Strong Country Lost

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.

Richard MacDonald

Life Passion Art I Am Ideas Problem

It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.

Me Chance Mouth First Right Him

As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize it.

Women Media Violence Fiction Deal

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