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Nadine Gordimer

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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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