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J. M. Coetzee Quotes

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: south african
Birth: February 9, 1940

Topics

Intellectual Say Movement Clearly

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.

Life Live Think Long Kind Long Life

Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews, it doesn't go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didn't expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didn't have Twitter.

Life Humor People Voice My Life Go

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

Writing Find My Own Hard Own Crap

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

Mary Kay Andrews

Research Always Because Guess Lot

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

Fight School New York Tough Learn

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Desiderius Erasmus

Talent Reputation Concealed Brings

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

Good Humanity You Wrong Personal

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

Alfred Hitchcock

Work Time Me Someone You Back

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William S. Burroughs

Someone Little Paranoid Going Knows

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Heart Universe Nothing More

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

Story Unique Play Write Own Origin

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Enough Long Years Lived Both

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