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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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