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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
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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Beauty
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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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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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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a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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 couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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