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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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 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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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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in writing, sex doesn't matter it's the writing that matters.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose we all struggle under censorship.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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