"Newspapers are horror happening to other people."

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Source : Nadine Gordimer (2013). “A Sport of Nature”, p.32, A&C Black

Nadine Gordimer

#People Quotes #Horror Quotes #Newspapers Quotes

“Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.”
“There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn't have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.”
“Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.”

Source : Penthouse Magazine Interview, www.salon.com. March, 1987.
“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.”
“I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.”

Source : "Women Around the World Want a Clean Energy Future" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.
“And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.”
“Artists are not helper monkeys; theyâ€™re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collaborative medium. From here on in, itâ€™s also the artistâ€™s story, and if youâ€™re working with an illustrator whoâ€™s any good at all, you as a writer have to tamp down any control-freak tendencies you suffer under and relax into the process.”
“Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.”

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