J. M. Coetzee Quotes About Skins

Quotes about: Skins

• To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a black skin, and a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether or not you know the difference between a subject and a predicate, are more alike than they are unlike.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Animal, White, Differences

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.111, Random House

• His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Running, Dark, Islands

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Foe: A Novel”, p.149, Penguin

• The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Light, Skins, Devil

  "Elizabeth Costello". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2003.

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