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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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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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