Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
NADINE GORDIMERCertainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
NADINE GORDIMERThe function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
NADINE GORDIMERRebirth. 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.
NADINE GORDIMERA truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
NADINE GORDIMERIn a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is always a voyage of discovery.
NADINE GORDIMERThe facts are always less than what really happened.
NADINE GORDIMERwhen it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
NADINE GORDIMERCensorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
NADINE GORDIMERWritten words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
NADINE GORDIMERThe gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
NADINE GORDIMERIt’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.
NADINE GORDIMERThere is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
NADINE GORDIMEROne can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
NADINE GORDIMERThe caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
NADINE GORDIMERNothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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