--- title: "1 Room Want Quotes By Alan Paton" description: "1 Room Want quotes by Alan Paton. Plus more from Alan Paton and more Room Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bf/alan-paton-6865_africa_have-you-a-room-that-you-could-let-yes-i_690796.jpg" --- > [“Have you a room that you could let?" "Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to let it. I have only two rooms, and there are six of us already, and the boys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/have-you-a-room-that-you-could-let-yes-i-have-a-room-that-i-could-let/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bf/alan-paton-6865_africa_have-you-a-room-that-you-could-let-yes-i_690796.jpg) ## More by Alan Paton > [“He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but it takes all kinds to make a world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/he-is-a-missionary-and-believes-in-god-intensely-i-mean-but-it-takes/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [“All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/all-roads-lead-to-johannesburg-if-you-are-white-or-if-you-are-black/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [“There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/there-s-a-hard-law-mejuffrou-that-when-a-deep-injury-is-done-to-us-we/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/the-afrikaner-has-nowhere-to-go-and-that-s-why-he-would-rather/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/but-perhaps-when-you-were-too-obedient-and-did-not-do-openly-what/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/for-it-is-the-dawn-that-has-come-as-it-has-come-for-a-thousand/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/indeed-there-is-something-in-this-valley-some-spirit-and-some-life/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [“In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/in-a-land-of-fear-incorruptibility-is-like-a-lamp-set-upon-a-stand/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [“Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/something-within-me-is-waking-from-long-sleep-and-i-want-to-live-and/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/and-money-is-not-something-to-go-mad-about-money-is-for-food-and/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [“Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/would-age-now-swiftly-overtake-him-would-this-terrible-nodding-last/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/sorrow-is-better-than-fear-fear-is-a-journey-a-terrible-journey-but/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/nosecond-johannesburg-isneededuponthe-earth-one-is-enough/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/when-a-deep-injury-is-done-us-we-never-recover-until-we-forgive/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) > [“I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/i-see-only-one-hope-for-our-country-and-that-is-when-white-men-and/) [Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/room-want/alan-paton/#itemlist", "name": "1 Room Want Quotes By Alan Paton", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Have you a room that you could let?\" \"Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to let it. 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