When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
NADINE GORDIMERSeptember 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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