I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATONIf 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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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