Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature - Nadine Gordimer - Quotesmemo.com

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What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

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Nadine Gordimer

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

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