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NADINE GORDIMERWriting is always a voyage of discovery.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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