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Nadine Gordimer

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


— Nadine Gordimer


#beauty

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.


— Nadine Gordimer


#life #made #making #perhaps #sense

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.


— Nadine Gordimer


#zoo #life

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.


— Nadine Gordimer


#inevitability #success #life

That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins.


— Nadine Gordimer


#ecology #ecosystem #nature

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


— Nadine Gordimer


#gift #give #people #things #wrapped

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.


— Nadine Gordimer


#between #charter #continuing #convenience #definition

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.


— Nadine Gordimer


#convinced #i #i am #innocence #power

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.


— Nadine Gordimer


#creativity #eden #outside #responsibility

A desert is a place without expectation.


— Nadine Gordimer


#expectation #place #without






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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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