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Letter "N" » Nadine Gordimer Quotes
«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.»
«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.»
«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 so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Art
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all the same, exuberantly, irrational, pointless, puritan, Puritans, wonderfully
«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»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Africa, conditioned, humiliation, stressed, submission, white man
«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.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Creativity,
History
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answerable, Creative Writing, Eden, evidences, extracts, sociology
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