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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.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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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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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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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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