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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
Music
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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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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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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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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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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