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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.
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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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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