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.
NADINE GORDIMERA truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Communists are the last optimists.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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I 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.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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