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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
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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