There is nothing to link me with torturers, people who sit waiting like beetles in dark cellars.
J. M. Coetzee Quotes
born 1940 South Africa
John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940), often called J. M.
- South Africa
- Academics
- Essayists
- Linguists
- Nobel laureates
Also known as: Coetzee, Disgrace by J M Coetzee, Foe (J M Coetzee novel), J M Coetzee, J.M. Coetzee, John Maxwell Coetzee
122 quotes
But why should people with nowhere to go run away from the nice life we've got here?
Life & Times of Michael K (1983)
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
Can't you tell the difference between a thin man and a skeleton?
Life & Times of Michael K (1983)
She inhabits her characters as a woman does, not a man.
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
Truly the world should belong to singers and dancers.
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Somewhere, always, a child is being beaten.
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
I search for secrets and answers, no matter how bizarre, like an old woman reading tea-leaves.
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
They lost their humanity, in our eyes, because of a certain willed ignorance on their part.
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Not every man who bears the mark of the castaway is a castaway by heart.
Foe (1986)
Will we live to regret this blood spent so lavishly on the sand?
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Futile bitterness, idle melancholy, empty regrets.
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
Slow Man (2005)
Disgrace (1999)
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
He is angry at his mother for not having normal children and making them live a normal life.
Boyhood (1998)
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
We can bring [the island] to life only by setting it within a larger story.
Foe (1986)
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