I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
NADINE GORDIMERMusic has no limits of a life-span.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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