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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence t

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer

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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – Nadine Gordimer

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – Nadine Gordimer

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