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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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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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