Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both are forms of scapegoating, neither accomplishes anything.
J. M. CoetzeeThe writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. CoetzeeStrictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
J. M. CoetzeeI speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
J. M. Coetzee