Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
NADINE GORDIMERNothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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