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.
NADINE GORDIMERExile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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