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Nadine Gordimer

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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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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In 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.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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