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Nadine Gordimer

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The facts are always less than what really happened.


— Nadine Gordimer


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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.


— Nadine Gordimer


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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.


— Nadine Gordimer


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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.


— Nadine Gordimer


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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.


— Nadine Gordimer


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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.


— Nadine Gordimer


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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.


— Nadine Gordimer


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


— Nadine Gordimer


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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.


— Nadine Gordimer


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


— Nadine Gordimer


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Did you know about Nadine Gordimer?

After Abdu's visa is refused the couple returns to his homeland where Nadine Gordimer is the alien. Literary recognition for her accomplishments culminated with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 which noted that Gordimer "through her magnificent epic writing has—in the words of Alfred Nobel—been of very great benefit to humanity". She refused to let her work be aired by the South African Broadcasting Corporation because it was controlled by the apartheid government.

She has recently been active in HIV/AIDS causes. Gordimer's writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues particularly apartheid in South Africa.

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