Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
NADINE GORDIMERThe country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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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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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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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