Quotes by South African Authors - Page 38

When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true.
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Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.
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Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.
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Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.
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Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.
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To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.
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It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.
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If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.
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Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.
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Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn’t. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn’t.
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It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.
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Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.
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Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.
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Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.
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Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.
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One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.
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Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns.
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Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.
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Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.
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Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.
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We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.
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Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.
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We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.
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Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare.
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If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
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Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).
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To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.
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Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).
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The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.
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More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.
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Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.
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Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.
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The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.
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The only real reason that some relationships and marriages have not yet been ended is because in each case one of the partners has not yet found their ideal partner or someone they love or at least like.
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Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.
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To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.
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Some men’s chests are more buttlike than some women’s butts.
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Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.
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Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.
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Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.
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Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.
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After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.
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Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will never love each other.
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Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.
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Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for.
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Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happened to them had happened to their partners, or if the fortunate things that have happened to their partners had happened to them.
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Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.
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Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.
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Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.
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Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet.
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Some kleptomaniacs do not steal things only; they also, while some only, steal lovers.
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Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.
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We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.
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I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.
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Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.
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We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly.
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We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.
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You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.
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Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.
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Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.
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