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“I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.”

Colleen McCullough

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The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another…

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“For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.”

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My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always…

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I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

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Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical…

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“But not we men. We weren't fit to be told. For so you women think, and hug your mysteries, getting your backs on us…

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How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

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“It's not worth getting upset about, Mrs. Dominic. Down in the city they don't know how the other half lives, and they can afford the luxury of doting on their animals as if they were children. Out here it's different. You'll never see man, woman or child in need of help go ignored out here, yet in the city those…

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“You still think love can save us. It's more killing than hate. Hate is so clean, so simple. Like being in the ring. With…

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“You still think love can save us. It’s more killing than hate. Hate is so clean, so simple. Like being in the ring. With…

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If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

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