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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
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
Writer
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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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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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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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