Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

NADINE GORDIMER

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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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.

NADINE GORDIMER

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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.

NADINE GORDIMER

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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

NADINE GORDIMER

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

NADINE GORDIMER

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

NADINE GORDIMER

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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.

NADINE GORDIMER

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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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

NADINE GORDIMER

I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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.

NADINE GORDIMER

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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

NADINE GORDIMER

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

NADINE GORDIMER

I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

NADINE GORDIMER

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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.

NADINE GORDIMER

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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A desert is a place without expectation.

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A desert is a place without expectation.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.

NADINE GORDIMER

One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

NADINE GORDIMER

Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Analysemwould Canyon Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

NADINE GORDIMER

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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