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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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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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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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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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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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose we all struggle under censorship.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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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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