Lugala Island Quotes & Sayings

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview. — Fareed Zakaria

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone(117). — J.M. Coetzee

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death. — Ellen Hopkins

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine. — Thomas Carlyle

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere. — Ramana Maharshi

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through. — Tony Parsons

Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?
Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version. — Toba Beta