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It's absolutely fatal to your...

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

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It's easier for the former ma...

It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

Nadine Gordimer 120 quotes

If people would forget about ...

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Nadine Gordimer 120 quotes

I'm a candle flame that sways...

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 120 quotes

When I was a child, we seemed...

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.

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Written words still have the ...

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

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Time is change; we measure it...

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

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I have learned since that som...

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

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The function of a writer is t...

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 120 quotes

Once you have some sort of re...

Once you have some sort of reputation in the outside world, they will try to woo you. They will say, "Won't you come and be on a talk program about books? That's not political." Then they can say to the outside world, "See how free it is, she appears on television. See how free it is." So I refused to have anything of mine read or dramatized on South African television.

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Fiction is a way of exploring...

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

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In a certain sense a writer i...

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

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it's impossible to conquer al...

it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

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In a country like South Afric...

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

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a writer doesn't only need th...

a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.

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Perhaps there is no other way...

Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag.

Nadine Gordimer 120 quotes

What is the purpose of writin...

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

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Truth isn't always beauty, bu...

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

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Time is change; we measure it...

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

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Perhaps the best definition o...

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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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....