"There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it...."

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Source : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

Alan Paton

#Running Quotes #Lovely Quotes #Singing Quotes

“The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one thing that I feel really lucky about, which is that I made something, I made art, that truly - in a weird way - truly comforted me and comforted a lot of people. And I'm really grateful that I got to have that experience.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.”
“PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.”
“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”
“My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end of August? Sixty-five pages! Each paragraph is good in itself and there are some pages that are perfect. I feel certain. But just because of this, it isn't getting on. It's a series of well-turned, ordered paragraphs which do not flow on from each other. I shall have to unscrew them, loosen the joints, as one does with the masts of a ship when one wants the sail to take more wind...”
“I love crazy, gaudy bling.”
“I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.”
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”

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