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“I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living” quote by Tim Winton — Download Open image

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Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

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“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many buildings and landscapes had an immediate and visceral impact, and yet in the natural world, where I am generally most comfortable, I was hesitant. While I was duly impressed by what I saw, I could never…

I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go along. I did both in different forms of isolation - too young by conventional standards, too far off-grid culturally and geographically. So my experience is probably too specific to be useful. None of us do this stuff the…

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

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The end of the world begins in the sea we love.

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“Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.”

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“Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life…

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“Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.”

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“Keep the day ahead of you, that's what the old man used to say.”

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I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now.…

Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about for one day, one clear, clean, sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living. Yachts run before an unfelt gust with bagnecked pelicans riding above them, the city their twitching…

The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury…

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Intel has a very complete process that I go through any time I want to sell that ensures I have no insider information.

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The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

Winston Churchill

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I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,…

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You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.…

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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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Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past…

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“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,…

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