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"18 Nadine Gordimer Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 20 November 1923. Died: 13 July 2014 | Writer | Activist |

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

Recognize Yourself Answer My
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Books don't need batteries.

Books Don't Need Batteries
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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.

Act Answerable Creative Creative Act
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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.

Affects Brand Censorship Experienced
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Brings Child Fear Hate
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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.

Between Committed Eye Fade
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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.

Best Between Charter Continuing
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Awaits Creativity Eden Outside
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

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

Am Convinced I Am Innocence
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Authority Like Moral Moral Authority
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The facts are always less than what really happened.

Always Facts Happened Less
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
Cannot Live Me Someone
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Another Gift Give People
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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.

Area Life Made Making
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A desert is a place without expectation.
Desert Expectation Place Without
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Characters Hemingway Learned Listen
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Alter Change How How Much
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Nadine Gordimer Quotes & Sayings