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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

Nadine Gordimer

In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, signified God's Word, the word that was Creation. But over the centuries of human culture the word has taken on other meanings, secular as well as religious. To have the word has come to be synonymous with ultimate authority, with prestige, with awesome, sometimes dangerous persuation, to have Prime Time, a TV talk show, to have the gift of the gab as well as that of speaking in tongues. The word flies through space, it is bounced from satellites, now nearer than it has ever been to the heaven from which it was believed to have come.

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Her ageing self often seemed to her an enemy of her real self, the self that had never changed. The enemy was a stupid one, fortunately; she merely had to keep an eye on it in order to keep it outwitted. Other selves that had arisen in her life had been much worse; how terrible had been the struggle with some of them!

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At last, deathly tiredness drained him of all apprehension; so might a man fall asleep half-an-hour before he was to be woken by a firing squad.

Nadine Gordimer

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

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Born: November 20, 1923

Died: July 13, 2014 (aged 90)

Bio: Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Known for:

July's People (1981)
Burger's Daughter (1979)
Le conservateur (1974)
The Pickup (2001)
My Son's Story (1990)

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