South Africa Quotes

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
I have no cynicism at all.
Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.
You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.
Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.
I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.
I hate seaweed.
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