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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
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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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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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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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