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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Nadine Gordimer
Hurt, Children, Fear
Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Jump and Other Stories”, p.66, A&C Black

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

Nadine Gordimer
Children, Differences, Television
Source: www.progressive.org

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

Nadine Gordimer
Children, Mean, Doors
Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.277, A&C Black

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. If something happens where I live, you see it tomorrow or perhaps even at the same time it is happening there. It's not "one world" in the sense that conflicts are resolved in the world. But we are more one world in that we know what is going on and are psychologically influenced by what goes on around us.

Nadine Gordimer
Children, Differences, Goes On
Source: progressive.org

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