Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
NADINE GORDIMERNadine Gordimer Quotes
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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.
NADINE GORDIMER
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
NADINE GORDIMER
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
NADINE GORDIMER
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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.
NADINE GORDIMER
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
NADINE GORDIMER