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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
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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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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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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.
Nadine Gordimer
I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
Nadine Gordimer
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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