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Nadine Gordimer  Quotes
They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space–atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from...

—Nadine Gordimer

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DeathExistenceGrief
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Pero las cuestiones humanas no conducían a conclusiones tajantes, al trazado de una línea ni a una suma total. Parecían resolverse, disolverse, cuando sólo se estaban formando de nuevo, reuniéndose en otra combinación. Incluso cuando...

—Nadine Gordimer

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VidaVida-Y-Muerte
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Death is really the mystery of life, isn’t it?

—Nadine Gordimer

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DeathLifeMystery
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… what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers’ days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and...

—Nadine Gordimer

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Freedom-FighterStruggle
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

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Truth
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I’m an atheist. I wouldn’t even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

—Nadine Gordimer

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AgnoticismAtheismReligion
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

—Nadine Gordimer

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Truth
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I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.

—Nadine Gordimer

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AfricaAfricansBravery
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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...

—Nadine Gordimer

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Writing
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

—Nadine Gordimer

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Nadine-GordimerSolitudeWriting
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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.

—Nadine Gordimer

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ApartheidNadine-GordimerSouth-Africa
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Books don’t need batteries.

—Nadine Gordimer

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BooksTechnology
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My work means that we have lived in different parts of the world and in each there has always been something to be afraid of. Gangsters, extremist political groups Right and Left tossing bombs into...

—Nadine Gordimer

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Fear
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Communists are the last optimists.

—Nadine Gordimer

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CommunismOptimism
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.

—Nadine Gordimer

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ApartheidCompassionPolitics
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How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

—Nadine Gordimer

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DeceptionDiscovery
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I’m happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.

—Nadine Gordimer

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African-National-CongressPoliticsSouth-Africa
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The facts are always less than what really happened.

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Facts
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The creative act is not pure.

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ArtCreativityPurity
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

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ActivismNeutrality
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I don’t cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

—Nadine Gordimer

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CryingSadnessSorrows
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I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

—Nadine Gordimer

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