"You could not tell a story like this.……" — Peter Carey
"You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel."
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34 Quotes by Peter Carey
Peter Carey has 34 quotes on this site.
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All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
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Swimming always cleans your soul
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I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter…
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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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More Feel Quotes
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you…
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop…
— Paul Auster
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and…
— Karen Armstrong
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and…
— Neil Armstrong
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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
— Mary Kay Ash
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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working…
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel…
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We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation…
— Julian Assange
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I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
— Dave Attell
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a…
— David Attenborough
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