Alan Paton Quotes - Page 3

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• Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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  Forgiving

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

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  House, Soul, One Day

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

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  Nowhere To Go

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• Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

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  Names, Rivers, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

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  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

  Alan Paton

  Money, Children, Clothes

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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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  Issues, Novel, Concern

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• Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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  Earth, Enough, Johannesburg

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• It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

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  Goes On, Cry The Beloved Country, Destroying

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• For who can stop the heart from breaking?

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  Heart

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• I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

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  Men, Hands, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

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  Compassion, Heaven, Gold

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

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  Giving, Unborn Child, Too Much

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

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  Touched

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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