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World 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.
- 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 grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
- The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.
- Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that…
- 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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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
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