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Say 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.…
- Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for…
- From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
- Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,…
- I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
- Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has…
- 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…
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