Nadine Gordimer Quotes

Best Quotes by Nadine Gordimer (Top 10)

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.
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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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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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