Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time. (Nadine Gordimer)

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

Nadine Gordimer

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