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I don't understand writers wh...

I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that this is necessary: one has to keep in touch with that... The ordinary action of taking a dress down to the dry cleaner's or spraying some plants infected with greenfly is a very sane and good thing to do. It brings one back, so to speak. It also brings the world back.

Nadine Gordimer 120 quotes

I decided that I wanted nothi...

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.

Nadine Gordimer 120 quotes

Censorship may have to do wit...

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Nadine Gordimer 120 quotes

Learning to write sent me fal...

Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

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Nothing factual that I write ...

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

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Humans, the only self-regardi...

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

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The solitude of writing is als...

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 120 quotes

Mumbling obeisance to abhorren...

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

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The caged eagle become a metap...

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

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Communists are the last optimi...

Communists are the last optimists.

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Perhaps the best way to write ...

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.

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Writing is making sense of lif...

Writing is making sense of life.

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From Ernest Hemingway's storie...

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

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My answer is: Recognize yourse...

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

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Sincerity is never having an i...

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

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All worthwhile writing... come...

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

Nadine Gordimer 120 quotes

I don't understand writers who...

I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that this is necessary: one has to keep in touch with that... The ordinary action of taking a dress down to the dry cleaner's or spraying some plants infected with greenfly is a very sane and good thing to do. It brings one back, so to speak. It also brings the world back.

Nadine Gordimer 120 quotes

Writing is always a voyage of ...

Writing is always a voyage of discovery.

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Your whole life you are really...

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and placeЂ' a single book written from different stages of your ability.

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There's no tiling moral about ...

There's no tiling moral about beauty.

Nadine Gordimer 120 quotes

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