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Nadine Gordimer - July's People (1981)

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People in delirium rise and sink, rise and sink, in and out of lucidity. The swaying, shuddering, thudding, flinging stops, and the furniture of life falls into place.

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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.

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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

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The present was his; he would arrange the past to suit it.

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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer
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Born: November 20, 1923
Died: July 13, 2014 (aged 90)
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