Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Books dont need batteries
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