Nadine Gordimer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
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“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”
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“It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.”
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“Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.”
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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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“A desert is a place without expectation.”
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“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
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“Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.”
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“A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.”
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“Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature”
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“The facts are always less than what really happened.”
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“What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.”
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“There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.”
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“Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.”
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“Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.”
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“All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.”
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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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“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'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.”
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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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“You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.”
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“Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.”
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“Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.”
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“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.”
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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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“Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.”
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“Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.”
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“I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.”
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“Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.”
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