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.
NADINE GORDIMERI never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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