Quotes & Sayings About Apartheid In Cry The Beloved Country

To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be fine. Charles Dickens or Ingeborg Bachmann, Claude Simon or later writers. The one and only condition is that it has to be good: it has to have quality, substance, atmosphere. — Per Petterson

It was an important day in my life when at last I understood that if he needed forty days in the wilderness at one point, I very likely could use three or four. — Dallas Willard

Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal. — Dr. Seuss

The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart. — J.R.R. Tolkien

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven. — Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating. — Karen Armstrong

I thought I'd take style to its limit ... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride. — Grace Jones

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges. — Joseph P. Kennedy III

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me. — Albert Camus

[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty. — Arthur Brisbane