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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

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
Hearing
Alone
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Keenness
Revive

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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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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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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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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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