Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
NADINE GORDIMERIf people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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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.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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