Source : "Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer: 'I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid'" by Justin Cartwright, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 14, 2014.
Nadine Gordimer
“I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”
“A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.”
Source : Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”
“Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority ...”
Source : Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.211, The Floating Press
Source : "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.
“The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.”
Source : Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.15, Psychology Press
“It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?”
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Derek Walcott
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Doris Lessing
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J. M. Coetzee
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Nelson Mandela
Former President of South Africa
Toni Morrison
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Wole Soyinka
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