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"You cant change a regime on the basis of compassion. Theres got to be something harder."
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Nadine Gordimer"As a writer, Im a composite intelligence."
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".
"You cant change a regime on the basis of compassion. Theres got to be something harder."
"Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life."
"Afrikaner farmer—a regional Party leader and Commandant of the local security commando”"
"I was evidence of the theory that books are made out of other books . . . But I did not remain so for long, nor do I believe any potential writer could."
"Had not been able to tell them anything that was leading him towards that Friday night when something terrible happened to him."
"I opened the telegram and said, "Hes dead —" and as I looked up into Graham Mills gaze I saw that he knew who, before I could say."