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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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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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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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