The facts are always less than what really happened.
NADINE GORDIMERMostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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