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.
NADINE GORDIMERResponsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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 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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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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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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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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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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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