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Music has no limits of a life-span.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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 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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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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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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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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