176 Quotes by Nadine Gordimer

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

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

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to South Africa again,

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constructed for himself, according to his needs and desires, something that had little relation to the reality of the continent,

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-Tlitist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.