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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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 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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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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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
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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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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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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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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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