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J. M. Coetzee Quotes

J. M. Coetzee quotes about kindness

South african Author, Writer February 9, 1940

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How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard to achieve after all. Why then does he persist in inscribing marks on paper, in the faint hope that people not yet born will take the trouble to decipher them? J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee quote: "(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple..."
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. J. M. Coetzee
It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat. J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee quote: "The sun's touch is kind."
The sun's touch is kind. J. M. Coetzee

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