The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
NADINE GORDIMERResponsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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