Andre Brink Quotes

#1. In love, no question is ever preposterous.

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#2. As Alan Paton said, 'Ah but your fucking land is beautiful'.

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#3. 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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#4. But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Sometimes, in one of his more exuberant or desperate moods, Pa would go out in the veld and sprinkle brandy on the daisies to make them drunk so that they wouldn't feel the pain of shrivelling up and dying.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. I was born on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, in the early spring of 1960.

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#10. 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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#11. A country can't love you. At most it may need you. It's much the same as people.

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