Nadine Gordimer Quotes

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A zoo is a prison. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
A zoo is a prison.
— Nadine Gordimer Get a Life

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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
— Nadine Gordimer Get a Life: A Novel

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
— Nadine Gordimer

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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
— Nadine Gordimer Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950–2008

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
— Nadine Gordimer The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
— Nadine Gordimer The Late Bourgeois World

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The writer's imagination is the looter among other people's lives. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
The writer's imagination is the looter among other people's lives.
— Nadine Gordimer Writing and Being

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When it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
When it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
— Nadine Gordimer Selected Stories

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The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
— Nadine Gordimer Selected Stories

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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
— Nadine Gordimer The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics, Places

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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
— Nadine Gordimer

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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. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
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.
— Nadine Gordimer

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