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One Quotes by Richard Flanagan
- Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.
- There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
- I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.
- Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.
- We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
- I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would…
- Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable…
- Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places, lost not only…
- I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
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