I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATONI couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATONBuilding on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATONIf you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATONAnd whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATONI envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
ALAN PATONThese hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATONSadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONSuch development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATON