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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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Nadine Gordimer Apartheid Nadine Gordimer South Africa Writing

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

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Nadine Gordimer Disaster Inevitability Success

The creative act is not pure.

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Nadine Gordimer Art Creativity Purity

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 all time.

~ Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer Death Existence Grief Life After Death Mourning

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

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Nadine Gordimer Crying Sadness Sorrows Tears

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

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Nadine Gordimer Apartheid Compassion Politics Regimes Revolution South Africa Struggle

To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?

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Nadine Gordimer Person Self

Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?

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Nadine Gordimer Death Life Mystery

Every morning, when people are getting up in the tent, the babies are crying, people are pushing each other at the taps outside and some children are already pulling the crusts of porridge off the pots we ate from last night, my first-born brother and I clean our shoes. Our grandmother makes us sit on our mats with our legs straight out so she can look carefully at our shoes to make sure we have done it properly. No other children in the tent have real school shoes. When we three look at them it’s as if we are in a real house again, with no war, no away.

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Nadine Gordimer Poverty Refugees War

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

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Nadine Gordimer Agnoticism Atheism Religion

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

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Nadine Gordimer Africa Africans Bravery Humility Race Rights White People

Communists are the last optimists.

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Nadine Gordimer Communism Optimism

You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.

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Nadine Gordimer Superstition Thought

But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and crossing its coherence inside her, nothing will let her be, not for a moment. Every emotion, every thought, is invaded by another.

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Nadine Gordimer Emotion Existing Human Being Thought

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

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Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer Solitude Writing

You know history better than I do, you've been teaching all your life. Without real opposition you get dictators down the line. Idi, Amin, Mugabe. No democracy without opposition.

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Nadine Gordimer Democracy Dictatorship

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

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Nadine Gordimer Activism Apartheid Innocence Racism South Africa

... 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 ice by the struggle against the numbing of cold.

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Nadine Gordimer Freedom Fighter Struggle

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

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Nadine Gordimer Deception Discovery

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

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Nadine Gordimer Activism Neutrality

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

~ Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer Hate Child Hurt

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

~ Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer Gift People Give
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