Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
NADINE GORDIMERVery 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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