Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
NADINE GORDIMERI have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Books dont need batteries
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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 never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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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.
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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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