Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
NADINE GORDIMERIt’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Books dont need batteries
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Communists are the last optimists.
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