The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
NADINE GORDIMERThe creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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