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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
Playwright
Poet
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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Humans
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Worst

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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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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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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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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 truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Books dont need batteries
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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 cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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