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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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"My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her."

"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."

"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation."

"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."

"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate."

"We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop."
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"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."

"There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man."

"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."

"Cry, 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."

"I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution."
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