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 GORDIMERA desert is a place without expectation.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Books dont need batteries
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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