Tim Winton Quotes

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• It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.
• When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're…
• People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.
• Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where…
• I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything…
• I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have
• Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.
• And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge…
• Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets…
• People are fools, not monsters
• Yet however comforting and peaceful beach-combing is, it ends up like the sea, as disturbing as it is reassuring. In dark moments I believe that…
• For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to…
• I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea…
• The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
• The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
• The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to…
• There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent…
• Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on at you in…
• The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury them,…
• It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from…

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