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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 have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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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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Books dont need batteries
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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