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J.M. Coetzee Quotes

Total quotes: 4

J.M. Coetzee

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Total quotes: 4
“Perhaps it does us good…to have a fall every now and then. As long as we don’t break.”
— J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood: Traditional Characters
Tagged: struggles, Mistakes, Problems
“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”
— J.M. Coetzee, A quote by J.M. Coetzee
Tagged: Happiness, Passion, Secret
“But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.”
— J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace: A Novel
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Falling In Love, process of falling in love, Love, poetry speaks
“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”
— J.M. Coetzee, Summertime: Fiction
Tagged: Books, Amazing, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
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