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# Peter Carey

(1943)   Writer   Australia

 **113** quotes in **396** categories

I have traveled widely, he says, and watches his country change from its early days. He describes writing as a marathon where ideas disappear after a book is finished, and he rewrites chapters over and over. He also notes that his Australian view makes everything else feel distant and sometimes lonely.

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Peter Carey is a writer from Australia, best known for *Bliss*.

## Quick Facts About Peter Carey

Born May 7, 1943

Nationality Australia

Profession Writer

Notable works Bliss

Known for True History of the Kelly Gang, Oscar and Lucinda

## About Peter Carey

Peter Carey is an Australian novelist born in 1943.

## Awards & Honors

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Banjo Award for Fiction Miles Franklin Literary Award Booker Prize Ditmar Award Bodley Medal Colin Roderick Award Officer of the Order of Australia

Show 3 more awards Barbara Ramsden Award Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

##  Quotes by Peter Carey

> [To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/to-know-you-will-be-lonely-is-not-the-same-as-being-lonely/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/all-our-heroes-all-our-great-stories-are-about-failure/)

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[Crafts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crafts/)

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> [At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/at-school-i-was-fanatical-about-being-a-scientist/)

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[About](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/about/)

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> [Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/australia-is-my-lens-i-cannot-see-the-world-any-other-way/)

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[Australia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/australia/)

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> [Swimming always cleans your soul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/swimming-always-cleans-your-soul/)

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[Cleans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cleans/)

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> [Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/then-i-fell-in-love-and-everything-went-to-hell/)

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[Funny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/funny/)

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> [I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-always-pity-people-who-have-to-write-my-plot-synopses/)

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[Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63c/peter-carey-4293_always_i-always-pity-people-who-have-to-write-m_1173661.png)

> [Culture is the way for a country to know itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/culture-is-the-way-for-a-country-to-know-itself/)

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[Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/)

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> [“If you know the country he said then you will be a wild colonial boy forever”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/if-you-know-the-country-he-said-then-you-will-be-a-wild-colonial-boy/)

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[Colonial](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colonial/)

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> [“A cormorant broke the surface, like an improbable idea tearing the membrane between dreams and life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/a-cormorant-broke-the-surface-like-an-improbable-idea-tearing-the/)

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[Dreams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dreams/)

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> [Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/nostalgia-is-something-we-think-of-as-fuzzy-but-it-s-pain-pain/)

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[Fuzzy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fuzzy/)

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> [“To refrigerate a clock was an extremely violent act, not one I could explain to anyone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/to-refrigerate-a-clock-was-an-extremely-violent-act-not-one-i-could/)

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[Clock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clock/)

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> [The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/the-declared-meaning-of-a-spoken-sentence-is-only-its-overcoat-and/)

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[Buttons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/buttons/)

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> [My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/my-father-left-school-at-the-age-of-fourteen-so-this-was-a-man-with/)

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[Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/)

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> [When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/when-i-finished-true-history-of-the-kelly-gang-i-realised-that/)

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[Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faulkner/)

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> [I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-have-never-begun-a-novel-which-wasn-t-going-to-stretch-me-further/)

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[Begun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/begun/)

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> [It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/it-s-like-standing-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff-this-is-especially-true-of/)

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[Cliffs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cliffs/)

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> [“She understood as women often do more easily than men, that the declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/she-understood-as-women-often-do-more-easily-than-men-that-the/)

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[Feminism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feminism/)

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> [In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/in-about-1975-76-i-lived-with-a-woman-in-a-little-hut-with-some-fruit/)

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[Fruit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fruit/)

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> [“... a country where we seldom understand that we must be prepared to fight for issues bigger than an umpire's decision at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/a-country-where-we-seldom-understand-that-we-must-be-prepared-to/)

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[Patriotism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/patriotism/)

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> [The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/the-failure-of-the-u-s-s-foreign-adventures-often-seems-to-have-its/)

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[Adventure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adventure/)

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> [What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/what-i-find-really-attractive-is-something-that-s-going-to-be-a/)

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[Attractive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attractive/)

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> [I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-got-a-job-in-advertising-so-even-though-i-was-writing-i-was-always/)

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[Depression](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/)

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> [I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/i-m-someone-who-always-wants-to-do-everything-differently-if-i-have-a/)

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[Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aea/peter-carey-4293_always_i-m-someone-who-always-wants-to-do-every_879023.png)

> [“Theophilus Hopkins was a moderately famous man. You can look him up in the 1860 Britannica. There are three full columns about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/theophilus-hopkins-was-a-moderately-famous-man-you-can-look-him-up-in/)

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[Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hopkins/)

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> [“She meant I was hungover. I had been slaughtered, legless, trolleyed, slashed, shredded, plastered, polluted, pissed. I thought, I do love my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/she-meant-i-was-hungover-i-had-been-slaughtered-legless-trolleyed/)

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[Alcohol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alcohol/)

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> [Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/glass-is-a-thing-in-disguise-an-actor-is-not-solid-at-all-but-a/)

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[Actors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/actors/)

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> [“There are problems with the wombat," Nathan Schick said. "I was interested in wombats in '29. I went up to your zoo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/there-are-problems-with-the-wombat-nathan-schick-said-i-was/)

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[Wombat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wombat-208002/)

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> [“The hydrangeas are clipped for the winter and there is a gardener with rum on his breath (and odd socks on his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/the-hydrangeas-are-clipped-for-the-winter-and-there-is-a-gardener/)

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[Hydrangeas Clipped](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hydrangeas-clipped-2260873/)

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> [“Charles loved her voice. It was so soft and blurred, like pastels. It made his neck tingle just to listen to her.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/charles-loved-her-voice-it-was-so-soft-and-blurred-like-pastels-it/)

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[Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charles/)

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> [Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/faulkner-s-as-i-lay-dying-had-an-immense-effect-on-me-and-most-of-my/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/from-the-story-the-last-days-of-a-famous-mime-he-said-nothing-he-was/)

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[Annoyed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/annoyed/)

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> [“Your grandfather were a quiet and secret man he had been ripped from his home in Tipperary and transported to the prisons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/your-grandfather-were-a-quiet-and-secret-man-he-had-been-ripped-from/)

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[Dark hair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dark-hair/)

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> [“The most puzzling thing in the entire encounter occurred at a certain stage very late in the conversation, when she discovered she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/the-most-puzzling-thing-in-the-entire-encounter-occurred-at-a-certain/)

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[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

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> [“Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared not touch the pack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/lucinda-might-sneak-from-her-own-house-at-midnight-to-place-a-wager/)

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[Ambition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ambition/)

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> [“But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. ... And thus fled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/but-now-she-could-not-bear-the-way-she-sounded-she-was-not-a-person/)

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[Australia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/australia/)

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> [“He was tender with her. He wiped her eyelids with his handkerchief, not noticing how soiled it was. It was stained with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/he-was-tender-with-her-he-wiped-her-eyelids-with-his-handkerchief-not/)

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[Australia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/australia/)

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> [“7. Some Theories that Arose at the Time 1. The world is merely a dream dreamt by god who is waking after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/7-some-theories-that-arose-at-the-time-1-the-world-is-merely-a-dream/)

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[Dreams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dreams/)

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> [“At the Annexe, at this early hour, I delete you, my darling, my beloved, with your wide soft mouth against my neck.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/at-the-annexe-at-this-early-hour-i-delete-you-my-darling-my-beloved/)

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[Love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/)

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> [“She held out her hand, like a man. He hesitated, then took the hand and shook it. It was very warm. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-carey/she-held-out-her-hand-like-a-man-he-hesitated-then-took-the-hand-and/)

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[Eye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eye/)

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