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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
Moral

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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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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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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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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