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Music has no limits of a life-span.

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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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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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