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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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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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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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The 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.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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