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.
NADINE GORDIMERMostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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