I cannot live with someone who can't live without me. Nadine Gordimer More Quotes by Nadine Gordimer More Quotes From Nadine Gordimer Communists are the last optimists. Nadine Gordimer communistoptimistlasts There's no tiling moral about beauty. Nadine Gordimer moralbeauty Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being. Nadine Gordimer lightwritingbeautiful 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 foreverhomelong Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa. Nadine Gordimer emotionalmenbelieve If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa Nadine Gordimer would-bewhitefirsts If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down. Nadine Gordimer realwritingpast Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back. Nadine Gordimer doorsmeanchildren Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone. Nadine Gordimer keennessrevivehearing Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time. Nadine Gordimer supportchangethinking Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church. Nadine Gordimer enteringchurchcrosses 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 ambitiongoalpeople I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that this is necessary: one has to keep in touch with that... The ordinary action of taking a dress down to the dry cleaner's or spraying some plants infected with greenfly is a very sane and good thing to do. It brings one back, so to speak. It also brings the world back. Nadine Gordimer dressesordinarythinking Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. Nadine Gordimer creativityedenresponsibility I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. Nadine Gordimer legstwentiesnine Books dont need batteries Nadine Gordimer batteriesbookneeds People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped. Nadine Gordimer birthdaygivingpeople 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 functionmysterylight Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. Nadine Gordimer single-lifewayfiction Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. Nadine Gordimer blessedselfanimal
