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The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsilbility
Nadine Gordimer
‘Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of creativity.’
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‘Feelings can be very obscure but numbers never lie.’
Kevin Brazil on metrics, obsession and fitness.
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‘An intense workout is an ecstasy of punishment packaged as self-improvement.’
Mary Wellesley on exercise, ritual and Barry’s Bootcamp.
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‘I was not good at sports because I would not do sports because I did not have the body for sports because I would not do sports.’
Saba Sams on girlhood, embodiment and avoiding sports.
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‘Following United rarely brings me any great joy and most often it depresses me. If I could disengage, I would.’
Jonny Thakkar on Manchester United.
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‘I deployed my body against an opponent like a blunt and effective instrument.’
John Patrick McHugh on playing Gaelic football.
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her works include Get a Life, No Time Like the Present, and a collection of short stories, Beethoven Was One Sixteenth Black.
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