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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
Revives
Keenness
Revive
Hearing
Alone

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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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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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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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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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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