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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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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.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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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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