It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATON
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON