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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
Novelist
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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I don't think I am a citizen of the world I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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