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Nadine Gordimer

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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Happen Horror Newspaper Other People
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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