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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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Writers themselves don't analyze what they do to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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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