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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

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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Short Story Writer
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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