"But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences."

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Source : Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

Alan Paton

#Offence Quotes

“Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.”
“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.”
“I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.”
“It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.”
“It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.”
“Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.”
“When you go from one part of the Turkish community to another, it's like you're moving from one century to another. People look at each other in a strange way, as if looking at someone from another planet, rather than trying to understand and open space for them.”
“Nature's bank-dividends.”

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