All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
NADINE GORDIMERA truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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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 factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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