I ask you to remember, not every man who bears the mark of a castaway is a castaway at heart - J. M. Coetzee

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I ask you to remember, not every man who bears the mark of a castaway is a castaway at heart

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About J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940), often called J. M. Coetzee, is a South African-born writer and academic. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He now lives in Australia.

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Native Name: John Maxwell Coetzee
Alternative Names: John Coetzee • J.M. Coetzee
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Not every man who bears the mark of the castaway is a castaway by heart.
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Margaret Atwood William Faulkner Ursula K. Le Guin E. M. Forster John Steinbeck

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If we devote ourselves to finding holes exactly shaped to house such great words as Freedom, Honor, Bliss, I agree, we shall spend a lifetime slipping and sliding and searching, and all in vain.
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