If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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What 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?
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