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Quotes from Interview with The Paris Review — Nadine Gordimer

1923–2014 South Africa

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Death is really the mystery of life, isn’t it? If you ask, “What happens when we die? Why do we die?” you are asking, “Why do we live?”

Interview with The Paris Review (1979)

If somebody is partly frivolous or superficial, has moments of cruelty or self-doubt, I don’t write them off, because I think that absolutely everybody has what are known as human failings.

Interview with The Paris Review (1979)

Progress is the business of making life more safe and more enjoyable . . . fuller, generally.

Interview with The Paris Review (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nadine Gordimer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.