Speech at the Nobel Banquet (1991)
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values (1985) ed. Sterling McMurrin
“Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.”
"The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order" (1998) by Dwight Garner
“As a writer, I'm a composite intelligence.”
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
“Communists are the last optimists.”
Conrad in Burger's Daughter (1979), p. 42
“You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.”
"'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer" by Karen Lazar, Salmagundi 113 (Winter 1997)
Writing and Being (1991)
"Great Problems in the Street," in I Will Still Be Moved (1963) ed. by Marion Friedmann
“Music has no limits of a life-span.”
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
Writing and Being (1991)
“I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.”
"The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order" (1998) by Dwight Garner http://web.archive.org/web/20000302013506/http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/03/cov_si_09int.html
Speech at the Nobel Banquet (1991)
Writing and Being (1991)
Nadine Gordimer buch The Late Bourgeois World
The Late Bourgeois World (1966) (first lines)
“Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.”
Rosa Burger in Burger's Daughter (1979), p. 130
“A desert is a place without expectation.”
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
As quoted at ContemporaryWriters.com http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03D25I553012635618
Writing and Being (1991)
"The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order" (1998) by Dwight Garner
“Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.”
"The Essential Gesture" (12 October 1984)
“We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.”
Speech at the Nobel Banquet (1991)
Writing and Being (1991)
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
