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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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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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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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'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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