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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
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a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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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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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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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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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If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.
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