4 Quotes by J.M. Coetzee about literature

  • Author J.M. Coetzee
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    Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.

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  • Author J.M. Coetzee
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    You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you.

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