Writing is making sense of life.
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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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