in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
NADINE GORDIMERResponsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Books dont need batteries
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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