"Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint."

-- Paul Bailey

#Writing Quotes #Self Quotes #Musical Quotes

“You canâ€™t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You canâ€™t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You canâ€™t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we canâ€™t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphereâ€”North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbeanâ€”is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.”
“The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance”
“People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.”

Source : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA
“We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.”

Source : Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett
“Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!”
“It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican. It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today, which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African American votes in Florida and many other states.”
“But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following: a) They are not built by human beings.. b) They are flying by means of artificial fields of gravity.. c) They produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes.”
“God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I'm grateful.”

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