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Nadine Gordimer

"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."

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"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."

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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"

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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."

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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."

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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."

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"History is the hallmark of humanity."

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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

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"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."
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"The facts are always less than what really happened."
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"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."
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"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
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"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."
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"Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter."
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"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."
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