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.
NADINE GORDIMERThe solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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’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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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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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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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