Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONI couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
More Alan Paton Quotes
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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.
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