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.
NADINE GORDIMERYou can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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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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