when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Books dont need batteries
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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