29 ordspråk av Nadine Gordimer

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

 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.

 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.

 Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

 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.

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

 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.

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

 Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

 She filled her house with blacks, and white parsons who went around preaching Jesus was a revolutionary, and then when the police walked in she was surprised

 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

 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.

 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.

 The facts are always less than what really happened.

 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.


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