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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
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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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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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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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