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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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 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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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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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