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.
NADINE GORDIMERArt defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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