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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.

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
Purpose
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Black
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Censorship
Feel
Areas
Feels
Identity
Struggle
Literature

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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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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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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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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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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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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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