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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.

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
Exploring
Writers
Mystery
Existence

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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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I don't think I am a citizen of the world I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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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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