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““About her husband, i did actually enquire, but she held her private life so fucking tightly, like a tourist clutching a handbag on the A train,..””

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“I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares will be…

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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

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It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

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“Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to…

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Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.

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I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known…

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I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners…

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I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the…

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“Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself.”

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“He were still smiling but his voice were hard as a spoon rattling in a metal cup.”

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When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take…

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