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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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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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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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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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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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