Quotes from Nadine Gordimer
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
— Nadine Gordimer
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
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
— Nadine Gordimer
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
Music has no limits of a life-span.
— Nadine Gordimer
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
— Nadine Gordimer
what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the struggle against the numbing of cold.
— Nadine Gordimer
The malediction is upon him even if the law does not exact it.
— Nadine Gordimer
The facts are always less than what really happened.
— Nadine Gordimer
Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?
— Nadine Gordimer
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
How did I find out? I was deceiving him.
— Nadine Gordimer