Best J M Coetzee Quotations
- Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look… Armour
- And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant Cold
- Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people. Consists
- Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a… Alone
- Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths Funny
- There seemed nothing to do but live. Funny
- One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds. Clock
- Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me. Breathing
- The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself. Confession
- All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography. All
- Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy,… Africa
- 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… Activist
- There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing… Abhors
- 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… African
- 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… C Claims
- 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… All