"Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's……" — J M Coetzee
"Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?"
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91 Quotes by J M Coetzee
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- They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we…
- Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to…
- Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his…
- To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white…
- Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they…
- ...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being…
- I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.
- Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament.…
- My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only…
- That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a…
- The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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