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Nadine Gordimer [1923-0] South African

Rank: 101
Novelist, Writer

Nadine Gordimer was 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".

Beauty, Birthday, Fear, History, Imagination

Quote	Tags	Rank
A desert is a place without expectation.		101
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.	Birthday	102
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.		103
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.		104
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.		105
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.	History	106
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.	Imagination	107
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.		108
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.		109
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.	Fear	110
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.		111
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.	Beauty	112
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.		113
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.		114
The facts are always less than what really happened.		115
I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.		116

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