Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
NADINE GORDIMERLiterature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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