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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
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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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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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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