"Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes"

-- Laura Dern

#Mean Quotes #Heart Quotes #People Quotes

“It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.”
“Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If I was, I would make you beg to blow me," I sneer.”
“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
“Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.”
“If you fall in love with someone, it doesnt matter who they are. Ive had lots of girlfriends who werent in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though youve sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.”
“There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.”
“For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.”
“I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need solitude, and seek alienation of a kind every day of their working lives. (And remember, they are not even aware when and when not they are working.) ... The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (1983). “Selected Stories”, Viking Press

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