29 ordspråk av Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
 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. |
| 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. |
| There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice |
| Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter |
| Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him, |
| Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. |
| Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. |
| Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. |
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