“I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.” WritingFoundMy OwnPowerfulSittingPraiseTablesFinishedCoffeeOver ItJustificationTwinsWeepingColonyPuzzlingCoetzee Author:Amy Waldman
“To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.” YearsMindPastMy OwnFiveMeditationAmountPraiseThirtyFive YearsCoincidence Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.” WorldFirstsChildrenLittlesGovernmentTodayNationsVoiceMy OwnViolencePraiseRaisesPressesDamnCurseBrownOppressedWorld TodayGhettoInconsistentVietnameseDamn You Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.” IfsLastsGivenMy OwnPovertyVirtueHonestPraiseWingsFortuneShakesRefuge Author:Horace