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Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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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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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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