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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
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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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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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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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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.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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