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There's no tiling moral about beauty.

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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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It was a miracle it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Books dont need batteries
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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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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