Hally: Not many intellectuals are prepared to shovel manure with the peasants then go home and write a… — Athol Fugard
Hally: Not many intellectuals are prepared to shovel manure with the peasants then go home and write a ‘little book’ called War and Peace. Incidentally, Sam, he was somebody else who, to quote, ‘…did not distinguish himself scholastically.
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Hally: It’s a bloody awful world when you come to think of it. People can be real bastards.
Sam: That’s the way it is, Hally.
Hally: It doesn’t have to be that way. There is something called progress you know. We don’t exactly burn people at the stake anymore.
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Don’t talk crap, Hally! You don’t even know what the word ‘sympathy’ means.
I thought I was keeping it straight and I’ve suddenly wondered whether it is straight, and whether it matters whether it is or not.
