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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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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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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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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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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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