My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
NADINE GORDIMER
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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