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“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Truth #Hunger #Truth Is
“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Writing #Made #Whole Life
“It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Miracle #Suffering #Saint
“Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Aging #Passages
“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.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Brain #Mind #Age
“A desert is a place without expectation.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Expectations #Desert
“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
-- Nadine Gordimer
“Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Power #Sides #Innocence
“A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Truly Living #Humans
“Writing is making sense of life.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Writing #Make Sense
“Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Human Nature #Worst #Written Word
“The facts are always less than what really happened.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Facts
“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.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Writing #Political #Purpose
“There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Sacrifice #Moral #Authority
“Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and placeâ€“ a single book written from different stages of your ability.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Book #Writing #Different
“Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Writing #Fiction #Truthful
“All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Writing #Vision #Individual
“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.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Writing #Eden #Creative
“The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Writing #Solitude #Madness
“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.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Flames #Air #Needs
“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.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Peace #Tree #Serenity
“You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Evil #Good And Evil #Cases
“Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Single Life #Way #Fiction
“Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Love Is #Tragedy #Way
“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Creativity #Creative #Demand
“If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Past #Europe #Things Change
“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.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Civilization #People #Wells
“Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#White #People
“I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Jealous #Writing #Privacy
“Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.”
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Next #Sentiments

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