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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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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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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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