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Quotes from Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II — J. M. Coetzee

born 1940 South Africa

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It continues to astound him that people can be as clever as people are in the computer industry, yet have no outside interests beyond cars and house prices. — Chapter 18, page 149.

Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002)

How can anyone in England understand what brings people from the far corners of the earth to die on a wet, miserable island which they detest and to which they have no ties? — Chapter 18, page 148.

Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002)

He does not as yet know England well enough to do England in prose. He is not even sure he can do the parts of London he is familiar with, the London of crowds trudging to work, of cold and rain, of bedsitters with curtainless windows and forty-watt bulbs. — Chapter 7, page 63.

Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002)

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