If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Alan PatonIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
Alan PatonAnd were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
Alan PatonWhen I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I havenโt any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldnโt face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
Alan PatonThere is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
Alan Paton