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• Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

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  Moving, Self, Ends

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• Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

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  Ideas, Sincerity, Oneself

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• As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.

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  Mystery, Existence, Exploring

  "Warrior of the Imagination". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. November 11, 2009.

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• It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

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  Betrayal, Writing, Thinking

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

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  Writing, Fiction, Truthful

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.199, A&C Black

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• Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

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  Love Is, Tragedy, Way

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Get a Life”, p.42, A&C Black

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• Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

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  Hearing, Keenness, Revive

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Conservationist”, p.112, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Freedom Of Speech, Brain, Mind

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

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  Character, Keys, Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Peace, Tree, Serenity

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Conservationist”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

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  Evil, Good And Evil, Results

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.304, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

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  Creativity, Creative, Demand

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.409, A&C Black

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• Music has no limits of a life-span.

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  Limits, Life Span

  Nadine Gordimer (2007). “Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories”, p.158, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

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  White, People

  "The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order". Interview with Dwight Garner in Salon, 1998.

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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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  Human Nature, Worst, Humans

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

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  Literature, May, Censorship

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.357, A&C Black

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

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  Writing, Vision, Individual

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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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  Writing, Made, Whole Life

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.139, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

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  Country, People, Life Is Like

  Source: progressive.org

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

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  Zoos, Eagles, Prison

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Get a Life”, p.159, A&C Black

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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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  Writing, Solitude, Madness

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.156, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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.

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  Struggle, Black And White, Identity

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

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  Eras, Consciousness, Certain

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.217, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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  Writing, Eden, Creative

  "The Tanner Lectures on Human Values". Book edited by Sterling McMurrin, 1980.

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• You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

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  Compassion, Regimes, Harder

  "'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer". Salmagundi, 113, 1997.

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