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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 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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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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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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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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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