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 GORDIMERI decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Books dont need batteries
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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