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A sport of Nature
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A sport of Nature (1987) by Nadine Gordimer is a 1987 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. While still a secondary school student, Kim Capran decides to rename herself "Hillela".Hillela joins the ANC, she marries a black man from the congress and has a child with him.[2][3] She travels to Dar es Salaam and Nairobi before returning to South Africa in the final pages as the wife of a fictitious President of Kenya..
Quotes
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is..
Nadine Gordimer
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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..
Nadine Gordimer
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
Nadine Gordimer
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Nadine Gordimer
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Nadine Gordimer
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
Nadine Gordimer
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books tell you why
— A sport of Nature
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