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.
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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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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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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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