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J M Coetzee Quotes
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Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires? (J M Coetzee Quotes)
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Elizabeth, lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? (J M Coetzee Quotes)
In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn’t change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it (J M Coetzee Quotes)
I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going (J M Coetzee Quotes)
I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Being a father... I can’t help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run (J M Coetzee Quotes)
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day (J M Coetzee Quotes)
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint (J M Coetzee Quotes)
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Long visits don’t make for good friends (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Unbelief is a belief (J M Coetzee Quotes)
The barbarians come out at night (J M Coetzee Quotes)
It is a world of words that creates a world of things (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Reason is simply a vast tautology (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Nothing is worse than what we can imagine (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history. (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don’t read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them. (J M Coetzee Quotes)
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison. (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. (J M Coetzee Quotes)
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. (J M Coetzee Quotes)
I don’t think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted (J M Coetzee Quotes)
To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy. (J M Coetzee Quotes)
Being a father ... I can’t help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business. (J M Coetzee Quotes)
It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories. (J M Coetzee Quotes)
I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world (J M Coetzee Quotes)
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. (J M Coetzee Quotes)
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one’s birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one’s own (J M Coetzee Quotes)