Famous Quotes / Nadine Gordimer
14 Quotations by Nadine Gordimer
- 1. Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret ...
- 2. Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and y ...
- 3. Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that af ...
- 4. Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearin ...
- 5. If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here ...
- 6. In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-elitist one -- the greatest ven ...
- 7. Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves wh ...
- 8. Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow t ...
- 9. Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
- 10. The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the de ...
- 11. The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mi ...
- 12. The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending p ...
- 13. The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is
- 14. There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.