David Malouf Quotes

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• Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.
• Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to…
• What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?
• I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.
• I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think
• The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the…
• I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening next;…
• Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I…
• We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and…
• Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant…
• Words his soul danced to.
• I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is…
• I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It…
• What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of…

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