Nadine Gordimer quotes

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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does ... - MORE 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.
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible ... - MORE 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.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has s... - MORE 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.
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in san... - MORE The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
If you live in Europe ... things change ... but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away. - MORE If you live in Europe ... things change ... but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
It was accepted tacitly that when he spoke of "our" people it was a black speaking for blacks, subtly different from when he used ... - MORE It was accepted tacitly that when he spoke of "our" people it was a black speaking for blacks, subtly different from when he used "we" or "us" and this meant an empathy between him and her.... It had come to her that this was the basis that ought to have existed between a man and a woman in general, where it was a question not of a difference of ancestry but of sex.
A desert is a place without expectation. A desert is a place without expectation.
In a democracy--even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-élitist one--the greatest veneration one can show the rule of ... - MORE In a democracy--even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-élitist one--the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience... - MORE Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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