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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.

Nadine Gordimer

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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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