When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
NADINE GORDIMERAll worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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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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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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