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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
Tags: sociology, realize, creative, history

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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
— Nadine Gordimer
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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
Tags: eye, only, sand, mind
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
— Nadine Gordimer
Tags: authority, like, moral, sacrifice
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
— Nadine Gordimer
Tags: outside, creativity, responsibility
Books don't need batteries.
— Nadine Gordimer
Tags: technology, books
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