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Author - J.M. Coetzee
Quotes by : J.M. Coetzee
language
As you speak I swear I can hear words being selected, one after another, from the word-box you carry....
memories
Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?
justice
I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people....
music
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time.....
compassion
There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have....
reason
There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment....
immortality
How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast....
motivation
A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.
artist
Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is....
female protagonist
Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane....
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