The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
NADINE GORDIMERMusic has no limits of a life-span.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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