South African Literature Quotes & Sayings

I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. — Chris Abani

You found her. Excellent. That'd be awkward if we handed out 'lost archangel' posters all over town. No one would take us seriously, for God's sake. They'd arrest us!"
"Ethan." Will mumbled disapprovingly.
"Well, they'd arrest you first," he continued, pointing at Will. "You're far more shady-looking than I. The tattoos. That's what it is. — Courtney Allison Moulton

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you. — Bill Murray

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death — Georges Bataille

If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still felt to make some claim on us that this project of discrediting his law is persisted in with such energy. The unscholarly character of the project may derive from the supposed familiarity of the subject. — Marilynne Robinson

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man. — Akinari Ueda

Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet. — Antony Garrett Lisi

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves. — Melody Beattie

In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are no limits, no borderlines. The secret garden leads to the marigolds of Mogadishu and the magnolias of Kingston and when the heat turns us sticky and sweet and unwilling to be claimed by defeat we own the night. We own our bodies. We own our lives. — Diriye Osman

The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure. — Elliott Abrams

Gabriel.
This has to be his fault, somehow. I'm going to track him down, pluck out his angel feathers, and stuff a pillow with them. — Lisa Desrochers

I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw ... Sometimes they end up on television. — Christopher Walken

Obviously I'm a feminist. It's ridiculous that anyone would think other of me. — Kirsten Dunst

They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it. — Jimmy Hill

South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison. — J.M. Coetzee

We survived life by adaptation to the changing situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind. — Earl Nightingale