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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
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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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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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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'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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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 shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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