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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

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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
Inspirational
Truth
Always
Hunger
Honor
Beauty

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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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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 cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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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 writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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I don't think I am a citizen of the world I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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Books dont need batteries
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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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