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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
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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Exploring
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Existence

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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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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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