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 - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The facts are always less than what really happened. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Time is change we measure its passing by how much things alter. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I cannot live with someone who can't live without me. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A desert is a place without expectation. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-Tlitist 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. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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