"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."

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Alan Paton

#Issues Quotes #Novel Quotes #Concern Quotes

“God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.”
“Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.”
“Imma sip until I feel it, Imma smoke until it's done.”
“I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.”

Source : "Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on striking balance with Cameron’s UK". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2015.
“I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.”
“What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.”
“I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.”
“No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”

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