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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
Prosaist
Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Privately
Pursued
Worthwhile
Vision
Individual
Comes
Writing

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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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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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Books dont need batteries
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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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I don't think I am a citizen of the world I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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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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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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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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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