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One Quotes by J M Coetzee
- As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought.…
- That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of…
- 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…
- From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
- My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me,…
- You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that…
- She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to…
- 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…
- To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes,…
- The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark…
- It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised…
- He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is…
- 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…
- You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in…
- That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him.…
- One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
- 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…
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