If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
NADINE GORDIMERResponsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Very 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.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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