To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my … - André Brink

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As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.

André Brink

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.

Dignity, Dream, Except, Mind, Relationship

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Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.

Entitled, Hope, Knows, Man, Men, Writing

I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red.

Guarantee, Incomparable, Know, Looks, Names, Taught

If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.

Character, Chosen, Dream, Life, Speak, Thinking

In love, no question is ever preposterous.

Love, Preposterous, Question

When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

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