Breyten Breytenbach Quote

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show on paper or employment to take ca...

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure o...

New Rule: Now that liberals have taken back the word liberal, they also have to take back the word elite. By now you've heard the constant right-wing attacks on the elite media, and the liberal elite....

Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened.Next! Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second.Whoa! Dan said.Amy gripped his arm. You found it?No, but...