Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
NADINE GORDIMERwhen it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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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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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Books dont need batteries
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