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Communists are the last optimists.

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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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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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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