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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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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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