Communists are the last optimists.
NADINE GORDIMERThe caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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