Author: Nadine Gordimer

Quotes

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.

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

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

- Nadine Gordimer

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.

- Nadine Gordimer

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

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

- Nadine Gordimer

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 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

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

- Nadine Gordimer

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

- Nadine Gordimer

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

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

- Nadine Gordimer

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