Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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