Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
NADINE GORDIMERResponsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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 have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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