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There's no tiling moral about beauty.

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
Beauty
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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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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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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 shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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