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Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer renowned for her profound social commentary and literary achievements. Her works often delve into issues of apartheid, class differences, and gender, winning numerous literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Famous Nadine Gordimer Quotes

“Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag.”

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Book:Living in Hope and History

Source: Living in Hope and History

“Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.”

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Book:Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

“Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.”

Way Love Is Tragedy Disaster

Book:Get a Life

Source: Get a Life

“Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.”

Way Fiction Possibility Exploring Single Life

Book:Selected Stories

Source: Selected Stories

“About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.”

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Author:Nadine Gordimer

“Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.”

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Author:Nadine Gordimer

About the Author

Born: November 20, 1923
Died: July 13, 2014
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 119

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Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008Related source material

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Living in Hope and HistoryRelated source material

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The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine GordimerRelated source material

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