Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Books dont need batteries
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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