Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
NADINE GORDIMERPerhaps 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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