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J. M. Coetzee Quotes

J. M. Coetzee quotes

South african Author, Writer February 9, 1940

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Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict. J. M. Coetzee
The mistake the two of us made,’ I said, ‘was that we skimped the foreplay. I’m not blaming you, it was as much my fault as yours, but it was a fault nonetheless. J. M. Coetzee
He thought of himself not as something heavy that left tracks behind it, but if anything, as a speck upon the surface of an earth too deeply asleep to notice the scratch of ant feet, the rasp of butterfly teeth, the tumbling of dust J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee quote: "If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a..."
If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee quote: "Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths"
Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee quote: "The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured..."
The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard."--Disgrace J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee quote: "I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without..."
I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted. J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee quote: "This is what it leads to! This is what it leads to if you let..."
This is what it leads to! This is what it leads to if you let your attention wander for a moment! J. M. Coetzee
All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a substantial being with a substantial history in the world. J. M. Coetzee
For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing. J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee quote: "We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain..."
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable. J. M. Coetzee
So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his chest his heart hammers so hard that it too, in its dumb way, must know. How will they stand up to the testing, he and his heart? J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee quote: "The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite..."
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. J. M. Coetzee
Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it. J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee quote: "In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the..."
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other. J. M. Coetzee

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