I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
NADINE GORDIMERThere is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Books dont need batteries
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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