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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."

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Donna Grant

"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."

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Donna Grant

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."

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Donna Grant

"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."

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Donna Grant

"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."

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Donna Grant

"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."

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Donna Grant

"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."

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Donna Grant

"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."

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Donna Grant

"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."

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Donna Grant

"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."

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Donna Grant

"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

Society

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

Mortality

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Time

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

Religion

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Work

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

Work

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."

Relationship

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

Religion

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."

Philosophy

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

Writing

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