Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
NADINE GORDIMERResponsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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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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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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