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Day Quotes by J M Coetzee
- My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what…
- The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right…
- 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…
- One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it…
- So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his…
- But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does…
- He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an…
- One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong