Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
NADINE GORDIMEREveryone ends up moving alone towards the self
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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