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Nadine Gordimer

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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Absolutely Betray Have Recieve Talent Think Work Write
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.
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Abstraction Always Another Country Desirable Embarrassing Exist God Pamphlet Thank Tourist
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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