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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
Prosaist
Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Interviewed
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Mostly
Society
White
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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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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 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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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