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J. M. Coetzee Quotes
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee

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Date of Birth:
February 9, 1940
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South African
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