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.
NADINE GORDIMERwhen it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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