Quotes by Gordimer, Nadine

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have >>

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our ag >>

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-Ã >>

Quotations about Travel and Tourism

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and >>

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. Th >>

Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure. >>

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

Gordimer, Nadine