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David Malouf Quotes

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us Picture Quote #1

All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined Picture Quote #1

Words his soul danced to Picture Quote #1

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change? Picture Quote #1

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become Picture Quote #1

Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on Picture Quote #1

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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 the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed Picture Quote #1

I’ve long come to the conclusion that when people say they can’t put a book down, they don’t mean they’re interested in what’s happening next; they mean they are so mesmerised by the writer’s voice and the relationship that has been established that they don’t want to break that. That’s what I feel when I read, and I’m sure now that that’s what’s going on in the relationship between the reader and the writing Picture Quote #1

Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I feel the ice of myself cracking. I feel myself loosen and flow again, reflecting the world. That is what spring means Picture Quote #1

We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce Picture Quote #1

Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region Picture Quote #1

With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers Picture Quote #1

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Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us (David Malouf Quotes) All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined (David Malouf Quotes) Words his soul danced to (David Malouf Quotes) What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change? (David Malouf Quotes) What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become (David Malouf Quotes) Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on (David Malouf Quotes) 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 the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed (David Malouf Quotes) I’ve long come to the conclusion that when people say they can’t put a book down, they don’t mean they’re interested in what’s happening next; they mean they are so mesmerised by the writer’s voice and the relationship that has been established that they don’t want to break that. That’s what I feel when I read, and I’m sure now that that’s what’s going on in the relationship between the reader and the writing (David Malouf Quotes) Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I feel the ice of myself cracking. I feel myself loosen and flow again, reflecting the world. That is what spring means (David Malouf Quotes) We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce (David Malouf Quotes) Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region (David Malouf Quotes) With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers (David Malouf Quotes)