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Nadine Gordimer, née à Springs le 20 novembre 1923 et morte à Johannesburg le 14 juillet 2014, est une femme de lettres sud-africaine, romancière, nouvelliste, critique et éditrice. En 1991, le prix Nobel de littérature récompense l'écrivain dont « l’œuvre épique a rendu à l'humanité d'éminents services ». Elle a combattu l'apartheid. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. novembre 1923 – 13. juillet 2014
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Nadine Gordimer: Citations en anglais

“Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.”

"The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order" (1998) by Dwight Garner

“As a writer, I'm a composite intelligence.”

Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.

“Communists are the last optimists.”

Conrad in Burger's Daughter (1979), p. 42

“You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.”

"'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer" by Karen Lazar, Salmagundi 113 (Winter 1997)

“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.”

"Great Problems in the Street," in I Will Still Be Moved (1963) ed. by Marion Friedmann

“Music has no limits of a life-span.”

Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.

“I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.”

"The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order" (1998) by Dwight Garner http://web.archive.org/web/20000302013506/http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/03/cov_si_09int.html

“A desert is a place without expectation.”

Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.

“Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.”

As quoted at ContemporaryWriters.com http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03D25I553012635618

“Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.”

"The Essential Gesture" (12 October 1984)

“Death's the discarder.”

Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.

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