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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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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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