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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

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
Writer
Vision
Individual
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Privately
Pursued
Worthwhile

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Writers themselves don't analyze what they do to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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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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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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