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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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It was a miracle it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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