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Were Quotes by Richard Flanagan
- I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
- My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.
- In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.
- Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted.
- Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.
- I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that…
- Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
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- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe