"When all else fails, philosophize."

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Source : J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

J. M. Coetzee

#Failing Quotes

“A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

Source : Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.88, University of Chicago Press
“... we kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times ...”
“A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.”
“Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.”
“Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.”

Source : Carol Emshwiller (2004). “Carmen Dog”, p.158, Small Beer Press
“When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.”
“A hero is someone we can admire without apology.”
“Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.”

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