If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
NADINE GORDIMERMusic has no limits of a life-span.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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