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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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 cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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