There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken in… - Nadine Gordimer

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There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

Nadine Gordimer

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About Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African Jewish novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize.*, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".[1]

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There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be. - Nadine Gordimer

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