Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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 caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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