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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was 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".

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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.

Break, Change, Europe, Past, Things Change

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

Air, Currents, Flame, Flames, Needs

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

Tension, Standing Apart, Standing, Writer, Involved

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

Answer, Answers, Recognize

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

Birthday, Give, Giving, People, Wrapped

As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.

Existence, Exploring, Mystery, Writers

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Fiction, Present, Single, Single Life, Way

Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.

Believe, Category, Emotional, Like, Man, Men

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Censorship, Literature, May, Nothing

There's no tiling moral about beauty.

Beauty, Moral, Tiling

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

Ants, Beautiful, Bottles, Country, Exist, Travel

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.

African, Government, Publicly, Speak, Television

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Live

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Disaster, Love Is, Private, Tragedy, Way

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

Compassion, Harder, Regime, Regimes

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

Bleach, Bonsai, Know, Next, Sentiment

it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

Account, Desolation, Fear, Loss, Preparation, Taken

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

Citizens, Closely, Country, Happens, Thinking, World

Once you have some sort of reputation in the outside world, they will try to woo you. They will say, "Won't you come and be on a talk program about books? That's not political. " Then they can say to the outside world, "See how free it is, she appears on television. See how free it is. " So I refused to have anything of mine read or dramatized on South African television.

Appears, Book, Political, Television, Trying

In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist 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.

White, Law, Judging, Reserve, Like, Greatest

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