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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose we all struggle under censorship.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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I don't think I am a citizen of the world I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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