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J. M. Coetzee

Date of Birth:

09-Feb-1940

Nationality:

South Africa

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John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, the eldest of two children. His mother was a primary school teacher. His father was trained as a lawyer, but he did so from time to time; In 1941-45 he worked with South African troops in North Africa and Italy. Although Coetzee's parents were not of British descent, the language spoken at home was English.

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"Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?"
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"When all else fails, philosophize."
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"The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do."
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"(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution."
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"A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us."
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"His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul."
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"We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable."
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"Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt."
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"Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people."
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"Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it."
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"I am not the we of anyone"
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"You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all."
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