“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana“Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana“We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana“A killer is someone who killed another without their country’s permission.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana“Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana“Speaking one’s mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana“The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.”
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