Quotes by Breyten Breytenbach - Page 1

I came, I saw, I was confused.
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Confused
Disorder
Saws
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Even ivory towers need central heating.
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Ivory Tower
Needs
Towers
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You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.
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Hunts
Order
Real
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Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.
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Art
Art Of Living
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In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
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Counting
Dancing
Enemy
Steps
Follows
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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
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Government
Human Rights
National Interests
Rights
Yardsticks
Interests
Predominant
Yardstick
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I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
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Curious
Defined
Thinking
Writing
Partisan
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The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.
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Earth
Night
Our World
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The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
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America
Envious
Goal
Obvious
Sake
Submit
Ungrateful
Power World America
Interests
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In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
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Covert
Governing
Hiding
Opaque
Reality
Spotlight
Transparency
Ultimate
Chattering
Objective
Workings
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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
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Abnormal
Circumstances
Conditions
Criteria
Example
Human Rights
Situation
Extreme
Brought
Precisely
Surely
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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
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War
Catharsis
Grassroots
Injustice
Mind
Moral
Powerful
Resistance
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Expressed
Popular
Shown
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It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.
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Countrymen
Majority
Mistake
Tragic
Anguished
Bush
Hearts
Minds
Out Here
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Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
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Accounts
Administration
Hitting
Protect
Restraint
Vindictiveness
Agencies
Perceived
Specialized
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Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.
Breyten Breytenbach / Writer
Dream
Indulge In
Order
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