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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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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Writers themselves don't analyze what they do to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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