Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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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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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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