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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.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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.
Nadine Gordimer
There's no tiling moral about beauty.
Nadine Gordimer
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
Nadine Gordimer
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.
Nadine Gordimer
