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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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 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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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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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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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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