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 More Nadine Gordimer Quotes 0
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 More Nadine Gordimer Quotes 0
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 More Nadine Gordimer Quotes 0
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 More Nadine Gordimer Quotes 0
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 More Nadine Gordimer Quotes 0
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 More Nadine Gordimer Quotes 0
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 More Nadine Gordimer Quotes 0
Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constructed for himself, according to his needs and desires, something that had little relation to the reality of the continent. Nadine Gordimer More Nadine Gordimer Quotes 0
Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him. Nadine Gordimer More Nadine Gordimer Quotes 0
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 More Nadine Gordimer Quotes 0