...with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world, and would sell you cheap to illusion.

Nadine Gordimer


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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

Nadine Gordimer

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I don't want to know more about her; don't want to know her weaknesses or calculate them. What I have is not for her; he gives me to understand she would not know what to do with it; it's not her fault. --One is married and there is nothing to be done.-- Yet he has said to me, I would marry you if I could, meaning: I want very much to marry you. I offended him a bit by not being moved. It's other things he's said that are the text I'm living by. I really do not know if I want any form of public statement, status, code; such as marriage. There's nothing more private and personal than the life of a mistress, is there? Outwardly, no one even knows we are responsible to each other....

'This is the creature that has never been'--he told me a line of poetry about that unicorn, translated from German. A mythical creature. Un paradis inventé.

Nadine Gordimer


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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity

Nadine Gordimer


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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

Nadine Gordimer


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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Nadine Gordimer

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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

Nadine Gordimer


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The facts are always less than what really happened.

Nadine Gordimer

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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

Nadine Gordimer

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