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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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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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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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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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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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It was a miracle it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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 shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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