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.
NADINE GORDIMERLearning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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