Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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