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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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 cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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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.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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