J. M. Coetzee Quotes
She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.
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If I were tied to the letter of the Scriptures and rigid dogma, I believe I could not have painted these profoundly felt paintings about the Eucharist and the 'Pentecost' religious paintings, he made c. 1909-11) I had to be artistically free - not have God before me. like a steely Assyrian ruler, but God in me, hot and holy like Christ's love.
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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.
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Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
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She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.
