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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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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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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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