Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimerwas a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity"...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 November 1923
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Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constructed for himself, according to his needs and desires, something that had little relation to the reality of the continent,
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He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to South Africa again,
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Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter
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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-Tlitist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.