Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
NADINE GORDIMERPeople give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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