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Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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 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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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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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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