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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
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Ought
Known
Suffering
Sufferings
Saints
Miracles
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Horror
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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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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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