Antjie Krog quotes

“I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.”
-- Antjie Krog

Source : "I write because I can't speak" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2004.

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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”

“What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lindy". "Beastly", www.imdb.com. 2011.