Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
NADINE GORDIMERNothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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