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.
NADINE GORDIMERMostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts 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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Books dont need batteries
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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