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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. - J. M. Coetzee
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home. - J. M. Coetzee
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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. - J. M. Coetzee
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We are not by nature cruel. - J. M. Coetzee
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There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books. - J. M. Coetzee
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. - J. M. Coetzee
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As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day. - J. M. Coetzee
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. - J. M. Coetzee
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In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own. - J. M. Coetzee
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. - J. M. Coetzee
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death. - J. M. Coetzee
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography. - J. M. Coetzee
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison. - J. M. Coetzee
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself. - J. M. Coetzee
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Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. - J. M. Coetzee
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