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J. M. Coetzee

"Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?"

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"Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?"

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J. M. Coetzee
"That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world."

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J. M. Coetzee
"In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life."

Life

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J. M. Coetzee
"Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?"

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

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

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

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J. M. Coetzee
"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."

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J. M. Coetzee
"If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart."

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"The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law."

Life

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"If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?"

Fiction

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