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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
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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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If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.
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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 writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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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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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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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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