There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONIf you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATONLet me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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 PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONShe taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATONBut perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONNosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
ALAN PATONFor it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONI am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATONMoney is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATONWhat broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
ALAN PATONLet him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
ALAN PATON