"It's true: one of the things that I've……" — Peter Carey
"It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia."
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34 Quotes by Peter Carey
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All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
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I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating…
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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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Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply…
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Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.
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And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to…
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At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up…
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Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
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I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds…
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I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.
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