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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
Keenness
Revive
Hearing
Alone
Revives

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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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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 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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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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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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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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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