200+ Quotes & Sayings By Sa Tawks

S.A. Tawks is a writer and journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, The Nation and the Mail & Guardian. He is the author of three short story collections: A Kiss for Luck, A Kiss for Peace and A Kiss for Luck and Other Stories (translated into French and German) Read more

He was born in Johannesburg to a family of English-speaking Indians who migrated from Cornwall to South Africa in the 1950s.

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Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country. S.A. Tawks
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I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy. S.A. Tawks
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It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination. S.A. Tawks
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Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers? S.A. Tawks
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She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination. S.A. Tawks
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I think the last thing you should do to someone willing to put your penis in their mouth is give them criticism. S.A. Tawks
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Your imagination and some masturbation is a much better alternative to finding out what kind of person a bit of casual sex transforms you into. S.A. Tawks
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Don't get me wrong, she was an attractive girl, but the last thing she needed was to get mixed up with me. S.A. Tawks
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You're a man, man. That means seeing two rocks on the ground that kind of look like tits will arouse you. S.A. Tawks
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When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories. S.A. Tawks
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The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. S.A. Tawks
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The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of. S.A. Tawks
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Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect. S.A. Tawks
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With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth. S.A. Tawks
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The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth. S.A. Tawks
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There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do. S.A. Tawks
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There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision. S.A. Tawks
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Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head. S.A. Tawks
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We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it. S.A. Tawks
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If that's the example you want set, you be the example. S.A. Tawks
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I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life. S.A. Tawks
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As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool. S.A. Tawks
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Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it. S.A. Tawks
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What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine. S.A. Tawks
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No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try. S.A. Tawks
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Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them. S.A. Tawks
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Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night. S.A. Tawks
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What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly? S.A. Tawks
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Embrace what works and discard what doesn't. S.A. Tawks
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You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing. S.A. Tawks
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Don't dare try to be heroes. S.A. Tawks
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Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas. S.A. Tawks
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It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure. S.A. Tawks
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You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you. S.A. Tawks
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I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known. S.A. Tawks
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Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real? S.A. Tawks
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What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so. S.A. Tawks
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Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit? S.A. Tawks
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Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try. S.A. Tawks
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The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money. S.A. Tawks
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Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray. S.A. Tawks
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Tales of triumph are my favourite. S.A. Tawks
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One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right. S.A. Tawks
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Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination. S.A. Tawks
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Someone who was just nice didn't remain on your mind an hour after they'd left. S.A. Tawks
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It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination. S.A. Tawks
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Isn't the smell of coffee the best alarm clock? S.A. Tawks
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The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important. S.A. Tawks
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Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them. S.A. Tawks
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I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read. S.A. Tawks
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We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality. S.A. Tawks
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There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it. S.A. Tawks
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I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined. S.A. Tawks
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Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit. S.A. Tawks
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The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit. S.A. Tawks
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My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon. S.A. Tawks
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It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination. S.A. Tawks
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There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality. S.A. Tawks
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Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn? S.A. Tawks
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Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible. S.A. Tawks
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Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can. S.A. Tawks
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Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will. S.A. Tawks
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There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan. S.A. Tawks
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Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found. S.A. Tawks
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It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power. S.A. Tawks
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How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good. S.A. Tawks
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And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful. S.A. Tawks
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Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know. S.A. Tawks
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All writers read, Ms Rainn. With dwindling amounts of books circulating imagination, the less writers of all mediums will be able to exercise their own imaginations. S.A. Tawks
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You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's. S.A. Tawks
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You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it. S.A. Tawks
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This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him. S.A. Tawks
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No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can. S.A. Tawks
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A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine. S.A. Tawks
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They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher. S.A. Tawks
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Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor. S.A. Tawks
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The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else. S.A. Tawks
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We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is. S.A. Tawks
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The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive. S.A. Tawks
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Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach. S.A. Tawks
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The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals. S.A. Tawks
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But, you must remember, whatever you eat, make sure you have at least one bowl of salad with it. S.A. Tawks
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A woman can never be late when she is meeting with a man. But a man can most certainly be late when he is meeting with a woman. S.A. Tawks
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Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on. S.A. Tawks
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Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it. S.A. Tawks
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When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there. S.A. Tawks
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It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt. S.A. Tawks
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If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home. S.A. Tawks
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If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might. S.A. Tawks
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He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals. S.A. Tawks
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You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results. S.A. Tawks
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It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks. S.A. Tawks
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Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn? S.A. Tawks
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Your doubt survives by stuffing itself with your confidence. S.A. Tawks
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WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated. S.A. Tawks
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I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real. S.A. Tawks
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Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic. S.A. Tawks
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The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly. S.A. Tawks
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She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape. S.A. Tawks
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Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel. S.A. Tawks