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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Batteries
Dont
Books
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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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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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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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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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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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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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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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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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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