History Quote by J.M. Coetzee

“I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through…

— J.M. Coetzee

“I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled…

— J.M. Coetzee

“Technically he is old enough to be her father; but then, technically one can be a father at twelve.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“I remember asking John, after Dusklands, what new project he had on the go. His answer was vague. 'There is always something or the…

— J.M. Coetzee

“The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard." --Disgrace”

— J.M. Coetzee

“Since I was in flight from religion, I assumed that my classmates had to be in flight from religion too, albeit in a quieter,…

— J.M. Coetzee

“Lucy was frightened, frightened near to death. Her voice choked, she could not breath, her limbs went numb. "This is not happening", she said…

— J.M. Coetzee

“It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“He sits with the pen in his hand, holding himself back from a descent into representations that have no place in the world, on…

— J.M. Coetzee

“Do you remember Vlek, who was such a good sheepdog that she and Jakob alone could drive a whole flock past you at the…

— J.M. Coetzee

“We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that…

— J.M. Coetzee

“...from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?”

— J.M. Coetzee