Change the world but keep bits of it the way I like it for myself — who wouldn’t make the world over if it were to be as easy as that. - Nadine Gordimer

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Change the world but keep bits of it the way I like it for myself — who wouldn’t make the world over if it were to be as easy as that.

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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]

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Boberger. Photo: Bengt Oberger (CC BY)

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