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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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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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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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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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 cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Writers themselves don't analyze what they do to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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