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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
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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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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Books dont need batteries
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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