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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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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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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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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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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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