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Nadine Gordimer

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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
NADINE GORDIMER In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eer...
ADAM GOPNIK Love is the greatest gift; we can give to one another.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A gift may not be wrapped with glittering papers but it must be wrapped with love and hugs.
TARUN UPADHYAYA Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
ELIE WIESEL A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE A gift wrapped in strings, not ribbons is not a gift.
JIM GENOVESE Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one s...
NADINE GORDIMER I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
NADINE GORDIMER The facts are always less than what really happened.
NADINE GORDIMER Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
NADINE GORDIMER From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by m...
NADINE GORDIMER Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMER The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mi...
NADINE GORDIMER Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
NADINE GORDIMER In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest ven...
NADINE GORDIMER Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
NADINE GORDIMER There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
NADINE GORDIMER The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending p...
NADINE GORDIMER If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here...
NADINE GORDIMER Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearin...
NADINE GORDIMER Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that af...
NADINE GORDIMER The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mi...
NADINE GORDIMER Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow t...
NADINE GORDIMER Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
NADINE GORDIMER Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMER Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small...
NADINE GORDIMER A desert is a place without expectation.
NADINE GORDIMER The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, wr...
NADINE GORDIMER Books don't need batteries.
NADINE GORDIMER The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the de...
NADINE GORDIMER A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
NADINE GORDIMER She filled her house with blacks, and white parsons who went around preaching Jesus was a revolution...
NADINE GORDIMER That was one of the things she held against missionaries: how they stressed Christ's submission to h...
NADINE GORDIMER Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
NADINE GORDIMER The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMER Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter
NADINE GORDIMER He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to Sout...
NADINE GORDIMER From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my ch...
NADINE GORDIMER I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
NADINE GORDIMER I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earn...
NADINE GORDIMER A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
NADINE GORDIMER Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and y...
NADINE GORDIMER Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves wh...
NADINE GORDIMER ... what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers...
NADINE GORDIMER But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and cros...
NADINE GORDIMER I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
NADINE GORDIMER Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constr...
NADINE GORDIMER Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must tak...
A.J. DARKHOLME That one was gift-wrapped, but when you score 11 runs in an inning you've got to do a lot of things ...
AARON BOONE To Love another is a gift we give ourself
TOM HERSTAD If puss and dog can get together, why cant we love one another?
BOB MARLEY Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
MARK TWAIN Forgiveness is the one gift you don't give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so y...
SHANNON L. ALDER To want something and to give it to another, is the greatest gift you can give.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING If you give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
BRUCE BARTON If you can give yourself only one gift, let it be positivity.
LILY CHATTERJEE Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
RICHARD MOSS The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
RICHARD MOSS The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
ESTHER HICKS If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
BRUCE BARTON If you haven't learned by now that you cant trust everybody, i think its safe to say that you are th...
BRIELL ADAMS The more I tried to be like them, the more gifts of isolation, they wrapped and tied a bow for me. B...
BRYAN INDIGO If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
BRUCE BARTON I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.
DEMETRI MARTIN If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It wo...
DAVID NICHOLLS Don't be afraid if you are being ignored be so good that people cant ignore you.
BILAL SAIF My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
JIM VALVANO This was the Big One. This was humiliation, disappointment, and dissolution all wrapped up together,...
RACHEL VINCENT The greatest gift you can give someone is a gift that only you can give.
LORRIN L. LEE The prodigal box had returned wrapped in a dish towel as a wedding gift.
CHRIS WILSON People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more...
MATT HAIG One of the wonderful things for us is that people who give money also tend to give time.
ADRIENNE WORTHY Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own ...
KWAME NKRUMAH How can we ever have peace when we cant even make peace with the things we cant control.
SYNECA DE JORMUNGAND Falling in love is easy. Fools fall in love all the time. Staying in love is the test of time and th...
JAMES A. MURPHY The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
BUDDHA If someone absolutely wants to give a gift because it brings so much joy, we ask that they give non-...
DONALD WILDMON In 1987 or '88, Etienne and Nadine came with a manuscript, ... It was all handwritten, with illustra...
ROGER WATERS The greatest gift one person can give their children is love.
VIKRANT PARSAI Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people m...
PABLO You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life i...
DAVID NICHOLLS I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped...
JOYCE BROTHERS This is not directed to anyone, but I have seen too many people give up or afraid to try to reach fo...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, ...
HANIEL LONG Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have t...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
OPRAH WINFREY Certain things give you another perspective in life.
JOSE CARRERAS I have nothing to give anyone, really. It’s the one gift I can give that has any kind of value. It...
FISHER AMELIE He has the whole package wrapped in one - he can shoot, dribble, pass, rebound, block shots. He can ...
EMANUEL DAVIS Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that la...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be rece...
KURT LANGNER A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.
NICOLA STURGEON Old things are replaced by new ones but the only old ones that cant be replaced are the ones with so...
ANTHONY CASTILLO It's one of those things that has to be done. We'd ask people to give themselves extra travel time i...
BOBBY SHELTON It's cross-cultural, it's very spiritual. It reflects the gift that Muhammad (Ali) speaks of often�...
MIKE FOX It's cross-cultural, it's very spiritual. It reflects the gift that Muhammad (Ali) speaks of often—...
MIKE FOX One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'H...
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NADINE GORDIMER Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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