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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
Always
Hunger
Honor
Beauty
Inspirational
Truth

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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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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 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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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