"I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering."

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Source : J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

J. M. Coetzee

#Knowledge Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Recovering Quotes

“It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.”
“The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New World Order that the Church is not prepared to face at this time.”
“I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.”
“You know the steez; you know my whole program. Brothers from the No-Lands, all we want is the G's guns and grams.”

Source : Song: Knuckleheadz, Album: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, 1995
“The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.”
“It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.”
“I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.”

Source : "Actor RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad". "Ouch" with Mat Frazer and Liz Carr, www.bbc.co.uk. November 10, 2008.
“I am one of the crucified dead.”

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