Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
NADINE GORDIMERThe creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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