Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
NADINE GORDIMERThe creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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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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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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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.
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