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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
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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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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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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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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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'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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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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 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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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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