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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
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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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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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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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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Writers themselves don't analyze what they do to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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