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 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
 South African Novelist

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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 - Nadine Gordimer Quotes

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

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 Blacks
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. - Nadine Gordimer Quotes

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

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 South African Novelist
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 Quotes

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?

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 Art Arts And Artists
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 - Nadine Gordimer Quotes

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

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 Missionaries
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 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

 South African Novelist
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer Quotes

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

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 Beauty South African Novelist
He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to South Africa again, - Nadine Gordimer Quotes

He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to South Africa again,

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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 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.

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 Earth Heaven
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter - Nadine Gordimer Quotes

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

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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 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

 American Activist
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