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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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 decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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