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.
NADINE GORDIMERRebirth. 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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