J. M. Coetzee Quotes about Giving

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What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a

What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.

J. M. Coetzee

Past, Giving, Locks

J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.38, Random House

She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.

J. M. Coetzee

Sweet, Giving, Mad

J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)

J. M. Coetzee

Yield, Voice, Giving

J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Foe: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

J. M. Coetzee Quotes about Giving

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