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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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