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Quotes by South-african Authors
"He with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest."
"I am not lucky, but I am favoured because luck runs out; but God's favour will abide with me forever."
"As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running through her already agitated mind. From the very beginning of their association, she'd had a bad feeling about Brandon Carver. Something about that guy just never seemed to fit. Sure, he was good looking " but so were many of the other out of work space bums hitch-hiking from place to place she'd also had the misfortune to meet."
"The facts are always less than what really happened."
"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."
"Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned to your purpose."
"We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!"
"One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible."
"My ship " the Demeter, was a star-liner operated by the Red Star Line. I say 'was' because of the events you will read about in this account. This is a long letter, I know, but I had quite a long time to write it. You probably already know this, having seen the commercials running on all the major channels for the last twenty years or so, but the Red Star Line is the largest cruise operator in the known universe. Unless something has changed between now and by the time you read this, this is probably still true. In fact, customers of the Red Star Line get more quality, value for money " and smiles by Demeter than they do anywhere else. Okay, okay. It's an old joke " corny for sure, but what the hell."
"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."
"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."
"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."
"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
"When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that."
"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."
"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."
"Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish."
"I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so."
"You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day."
"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
"Some mommies and daddies find it hard to acceptKids who are different to the normal set."
"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him."
"An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being."
"Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture)."
"I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man."
"Nothing is free' asserts two things. Both assertions are true."
"He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work."
"I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches."
"I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe."
"At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did."
"We should express our daily gratitude to our Heavenly Father for He's our God, He's our righteousness. He's the breather of life."
"Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear."
"After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us."
"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls."
"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."
"Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing."
"The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. "The Hammer stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart."
"A realist is a slave to reality."
"Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?"
"The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest."
"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals."
"Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go."
"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
"At forty two years, Sona Kilroy stood tall and strapping, a powerful figure. Rising to the rank of Admiral in the Corsair fleet was no easy feat. It took intelligence, talent, determination, resilience, creative thinking, brute force, and sheer cunning to achieve " and perhaps also a large slice of luck."
"The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh?"
"So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country."
"To expect the other people to spoon-feed you shows the lack of hunger, thirst or drive to push forward the things you desire to accomplish."
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