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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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
essentials faculty androgynous
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
contempt humans ifs
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter