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Nadine Gordimer

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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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