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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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