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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. - Nadin

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. – Nadine Gordimer

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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer

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power
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Nadine Gordimer
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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. – Nadine Gordimer

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Speech (freedom of)
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Nadine Gordimer
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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. – Nadine Gordimer

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Exile
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Other Quotes from
Fear
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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to peoples sense of alarm… but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here. – Brit Hume

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Fear

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. – Anna Jameson

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Fear

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. – John Cheever

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Fear

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized. – Conan OBrien

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Fear

Random Quotes

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? – Czeslaw Milosz

Category:
Poetry

Man dies of cold, not of darkness. – Miguel de Unamuno

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Death

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I wont answer the door. – Abel Ferrara

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Change

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry