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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Become Cage Eagle Form Imprisonment Isolation Metaphor Prison Ultimate Zoo
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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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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