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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
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Sex
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Writing
Matters

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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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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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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 country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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