Me Quotes by Eleanor Catton

8 Me quotes by Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton’s eight brief statements on ‘Me’ provide a compact window into her own introspection. Though limited in number, they still convey her nuanced, literary tone.

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My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum,…

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My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not…

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Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

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When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made…

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Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's…

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I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your…

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Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and…

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The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the…

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“In my experience people are rarely contented to end up where they started.”

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“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the…

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“What was glimpsed in Aquarius—what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, and forewarned—is made, in Pisces, manifest. Those solitary visions that, but a…

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“Gaining control isn't the exciting part. Sleeping with a minor isn't exciting because you get to boss them around. It's exciting because you're risking…

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Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different…

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As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You…

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The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can…

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“True feeling is always circular - either circular, or paradoxical - simply because its cause and its expression are tow halves of the very…

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“he built his persona as a shield around his person, because he knew very well how little his person could withstand.”

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“It must have been unpleasant to be discussed as a curiosity, spoken about over breakfast, and between rounds at billiards, as if one's soul…

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Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that…

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