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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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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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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's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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 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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
Nadine Gordimer
Communists are the last optimists.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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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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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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