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The facts are always less than what really happened.

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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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