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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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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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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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 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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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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