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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.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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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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If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.
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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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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 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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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