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Nadine Gordimer

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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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.
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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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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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