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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
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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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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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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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