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

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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
Hunger
Honor
Beauty
Inspirational
Truth
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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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 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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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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