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Eating is a ritual, and rituals make things easier. — J.M. Coetzee

How easy it is to love a child, how hard to love what a child turns into! — J.M. Coetzee

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable. — J.M. Coetzee

I am not the we of anyone — J.M. Coetzee

When death cuts all other links, there remains the name. Baptism: the union of a soul with a name, the name it will carry into eternity. — J.M. Coetzee

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant — J.M. Coetzee

When all else fails, philosophize. — J.M. Coetzee

Kafka saw both himself and Red Peter as hybrids, as monstrous thinking devices mounted inexplicably on suffering animal bodies. — J.M. Coetzee

Freud's warning that what I omit without thinking (i.e. without conscious thought) may be the key to the deepest truth about me? — J.M. Coetzee

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories? — J.M. Coetzee

He believed that our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish,within or even against the constraints posed by the real world ... — J.M. Coetzee

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind? — J.M. Coetzee

No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy. — J.M. Coetzee

Unbelief is a belief. — J.M. Coetzee

If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full. — J.M. Coetzee

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best. — J.M. Coetzee

Flowers grow best on dungheaps, as Shakespeare never tires of saying. — J.M. Coetzee

Perhaps it does us good to have a fall every now and then. As long as we don't break. — J.M. Coetzee

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. — J.M. Coetzee

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. — J.M. Coetzee

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy. — J.M. Coetzee

Do you hope you can expiate the crimes of the past by suffering in the present? — J.M. Coetzee

Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'. — Don King

Reason is simply a vast tautology. — J.M. Coetzee

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. — J.M. Coetzee

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

It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways. — J.M. Coetzee

The barbarians come out at night. — J.M. Coetzee

Women are sensitive to it, to the weight of the desiring gaze. — J.M. Coetzee

If there is ever a word of criticism of America, it is of the most muted kind. — J.M. Coetzee

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? — J.M. Coetzee

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am. — J.M. Coetzee

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. — J.M. Coetzee

I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader. — Allister Coetzee