André Brink Quotes
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It don’t matter how far a river run. It never forget where it come from. That is all that is important.
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One can see plainly that there is thunder brooding in his head, but he refuses to speak to them.
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In love, no question is ever preposterous.
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A country can't love you. At most it may need you. It's much the same as people.
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If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.
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When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.
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Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.
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To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.
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The most I can do is to go as far as I can, writing my own story in the dust with my two feet, word for word.
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My library was - all libraries are - a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.