Name	Nadine Gordimer
Age	85
Date of Birth	November 20, 1923
Birthplace	Springs, Transvaal, South Africa
Star Sign	Scorpio
Nationality	South African
Religion	Atheist
High School	Our Lady of Mercy Convent, Springs, South Africa
University	Witwatersrand University (dropped out)
Occupation	Author
Celebrity Index	Na
Claim to Fame	South African novelist
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Quotes

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

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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.

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The facts are always less than what really happened.

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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.

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Truth isn`t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

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People give one another things that can`t be gift wrapped.

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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

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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.

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

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

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

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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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The truth isn`t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

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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.

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A desert is a place without expectation.

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

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