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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.
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
Television
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Writers
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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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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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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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 cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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