I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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