Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
NADINE GORDIMERIf one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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