in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
NADINE GORDIMERCensorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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