Coetzee Elizabeth Quotes

#1. No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

J.M. Coetzee

#2. Life is never what it seems - and that's the great thing about it

Ines De La Fressange

#3. 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?

J.M. Coetzee

#4. What I know of the divine
science and holy scripture,
I learnt in the woods and fields.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#5. If you can't, or don't wish to, cut back production, then try to manufacture demand - the story of the twentieth century?

Thomas Thwaites

#6. Soul Born is not about good and evil, it's about the shadows that lie in-between.

Kevin James Breaux

#7. I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.

Aesop

#8. From 'Chappelle's Show' to 'Tosh.0,' there's so much race comedy. It's overdone.

Eric Andre

#9. What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people say Donald Trump is authentic. Just because he says "Mexican rapists." What about me? I am the real deal.

Joe Biden

#10. Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans were responsible for it all.

Karl Marlantes

#11. If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

Adrian Rogers

#12. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. I sat down quietly in a corner with my glass of port, and kept quiet while Simon questioned Jamie once again about Charles Stuart's situation and prospects.

Diana Gabaldon

#14. Gotta concentrate, honey," he smiled, then glanced at her with a wink. "And you looking at me the way you're looking at me really is not helping.

Sibylla Matilde

#15. The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling after its brief, masochistic marriage to the top of my wooden desk.

Jonathan Lethem

#16. Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.

Kimberlee Roth

#17. Nature's design is fully economical. Human design follows this model when it minimizes information and maximizes understanding.

Maggie Macnab