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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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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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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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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