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“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.”
Source : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.194, Penguin
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“I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.”
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“Grown ups are certainly very strange.”
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“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.”
Source : Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”
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“If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality...”
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“I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.”
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“Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”
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“I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.”
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“People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.”
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“For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.”
Source : Kathleen McGowan (2012). “The Book of Love”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
