Encounters Quote by David Malouf

“Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely… It is simply the most ordinary place in the world…It was so shabby and makeshift…

— David Malouf

“The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run…

— David Malouf

Words his soul danced to.

— David Malouf

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

— David Malouf

“So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not…

— David Malouf

All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.

— David Malouf

“However the story is told and elaborated, the raw shame of it will be with him now til his last breath.”

— David Malouf

The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed…

— David Malouf

“I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the…

— David Malouf

Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us…

— David Malouf

“I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.”

— David Malouf

“She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.”

— David Malouf