"You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real."

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Breyten Breytenbach

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“Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.”
“I learned that once it's over, it's really over, and to not take anything for granted.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media
“Don't tell yourself you don't need love just because it hasn't found you yet.”
“An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.”
“Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from.”
“Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.”
“I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.”

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