I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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