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Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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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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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
Nadine Gordimer
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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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
Nadine Gordimer
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
Nadine Gordimer
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.
Nadine Gordimer
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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