Spiritual Quotes by Eleanor Catton

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I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain…

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“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would…

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I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

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An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

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“own reputation, by associating himself with a story of cuckoldry, blackmail, murder, and revenge, and nor did he spare a thought for how Balfour might be recompensed. He felt only relief. An invisible order had been restored: the same kind of order that ensured his boiled egg was ready every morning, and the dishes cleared away. He plumped the knot…

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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 future and profoundly regretful of the world's decay.”

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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 month ago, belonged only to the dreamer, will now acquire the form and substance of the real. We were of our own making, and we shall be our own end. And after Pisces? Out of the…

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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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