Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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