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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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