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 GordimerYou can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
Nadine GordimerCensorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
Nadine GordimerIf one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
Nadine GordimerThe 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