Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
NADINE GORDIMERMostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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 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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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