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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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Towards
Alone
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Everyone
Ends
Self
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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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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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Books dont need batteries
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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