If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
NADINE GORDIMERWritten words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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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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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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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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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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