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Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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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.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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