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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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