176 Quotes by Nadine Gordimer

But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and crossing its coherence inside her, nothing will let her be, not for a moment. Every emotion, every thought, is invaded by another.

The malediction is upon him even if the law does not exact it.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

What is shameful cannot be shared. What is shameful, separates.

I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

Everyone wears the uniform of how he sees himself or how he disguises himself.