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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer föddes den 20 november 1923 - S. African writer
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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.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

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

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.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

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.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

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.

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

That was one of the things she held against missionaries: how they stressed Christ's submission to humiliation, and so had conditioned the people of Africa to humiliation by the white man

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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