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Communists are the last optimists.

Nadine Gordimer

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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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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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