Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
NADINE GORDIMERIt’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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