Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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 PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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 PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
ALAN PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATONBut to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONPeople hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONThese hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATONBut I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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