Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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