Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is always a voyage of discovery.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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 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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