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Nadine Gordimer

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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Being Contempt Human Interested Sufficiently Writer
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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