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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. — Nadine Gordimer

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings. — Nadine Gordimer

Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer

That night they made love, the kind of love-making that is another country, a country of its own, not yours or mine. — Nadine Gordimer

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch. — Nadine Gordimer

Wherever the hope of glory lives, hopelessness passes away. — Nadine C. Keels

Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle. — Nadine Velazquez

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views. — Nadine Gordimer

I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while. — Nadine Dorries

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

I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead. — Nadine Gordimer

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

I would love to have a drink with Meryl Streep or Prince. Those are my top two people I would love to talk to. — Nadine Velazquez

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down. — Nadine Velazquez

I don't usually like a smoky eye; if there is any smokiness, it's got to be a light color. — Nadine Velazquez

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

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era. — Nadine Gordimer

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true. — Nadine Labaki

I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever. — Nadine Gordimer

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language. — Nadine Labaki

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

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

Books don't need batteries. — Nadine Gordimer

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me. — Nadine Labaki

The creative act is not pure. — Nadine Gordimer

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm. — Nadine Velazquez

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light. — Nadine Gordimer

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others — Nadine Gordimer

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies. — Nadine Velazquez

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

Also by Nadine Dorries — Nadine Dorries

Because what we have done, we have thrown clothes off and they have picked them up and put them on. — Nadine Dorries

to a High City with him . . . alone. And those who know he lives in the — Nadine Brandes

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

Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer

When it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings. — Nadine Gordimer

Not fair! Okay, what's the record? How many times?
If you can count them, he didn't drop you out.
Nadine groaned, shuddered, grinned. 'Bitch. — J.D. Robb

If something's not mean't for you, you won't get it, simple as that. — Nadine Coyle

I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress. — Nadine Velazquez

Time is something you can't replace — Nadine

At four in the afternoon the old moon bleeds radiance into the grey sky. — Nadine Gordimer

Writing is making sense of life. — Nadine Gordimer

If you live in Europe ... things change ... but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away. — Nadine Gordimer

Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer. — Nadine Gordimer

I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance! — Nadine Velazquez

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

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral. — Nadine Gordimer

I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be. — Nadine Velazquez

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

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

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked. — Nadine Labaki

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next. — Nadine Gordimer

My dream role would be to act with Denzel again! — Nadine Velazquez

When you kiss a Mer-male, does it taste like fish? — Nadine Christian

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that. — Nadine Gordimer

you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind. — Nadine Gordimer

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

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. — Nadine Gordimer

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes. — Nadine Velazquez

Writing is always a voyage of discovery. — Nadine Gordimer

My first job was a McDonald's commercial. It made me want to wake up at 4 A.M. to do something I loved. I haven't been the same since. — Nadine Velazquez

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self — Nadine Gordimer

As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls. — Nadine Velazquez

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa — Nadine Gordimer

If you ask, 'What happens when we die? Why do we die?' you are asking, 'Why do we live? — Nadine Gordimer

There's no tiling moral about beauty. — Nadine Gordimer

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid. — Nadine Gordimer

In writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters. — Nadine Gordimer

I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. — Nadine Gordimer

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. — Nadine Gordimer

I don't know. I'm really really really nervous. — Nadine Coyle

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. — Nadine Gordimer

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone. — Nadine Gordimer

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

I'm just someone who observes a lot. — Nadine Labaki

I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you? — Chuck Berry

Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it. — Nadine Velazquez

Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction. — Nadine Dorries

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity — Nadine Gordimer

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. — Nadine Gordimer

Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. — Nadine Gordimer

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship. — Nadine Gordimer

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer

My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey. — Nadine Velazquez

Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships. — Nadine Gordimer

It's really all about your training. Whatever you train for, you'll be ready for. — Nadine Faustin-Parker

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

I wanted to bring a bucket of fried chicken home through the snow to my family. — Nadine Darling

For the first time he said to himself that a little one, indeed a very little one, had take up space in his heart. A lot of space. — Nadine Brun-Cosme

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. — Nadine Gordimer

I think Sarah Palin is amazing. I totally admire her. — Nadine Dorries

Death's the discarder. — Nadine Gordimer

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

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself. — Nadine Gordimer

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship. — Nadine Gordimer

Newspapers are horror happening to other people. — Nadine Gordimer

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter. — Nadine Gordimer

A desert is a place without expectation. — Nadine Gordimer

The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives. — Nadine Gordimer