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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
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
Writer
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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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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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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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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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.
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