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“A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.”
“Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.”
“(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”
“Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.”
“A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not enough shoes, cars, cigarettes. Too many people too few things. What there is must go into circ...”
“You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.Im going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.”
“I don't know what you do about sex and I don't want to know, but this is not the way to go about it. You're what fifty-two? Do you think a young girl finds any pleasure in going to bed with a man ...”
“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”
“In a sudden and soundless eruption, as if he has fallen into a waking dream, a stream of images pours down, images of women he has known on two continents, some from so far away in time that he bar...”
“Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which me...”
“He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her 'I don't know how you do it,' in order not to have...”
“In a minute, in an hour, it will be too late; whatever is happening to her will be set in stone, will belong to the past. But now is not too late. Now he must do something”
“He would not mind hearing Petruss 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.”
“The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this tim...”
“A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not enough cars, shoes, cigarettes. Too many people, too few things. What there is must go into circ...”
“Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other, more productive ways of giving oneself to the world, or to an idea of the world... B...”
