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Richard Flanagan Quotes

My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer’s daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school Picture Quote #1

The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689 Picture Quote #1

For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the ‘fair go.’ Picture Quote #1

Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted Picture Quote #1

Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That’s what writing does - it allows you to say all those things Picture Quote #1

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after Picture Quote #1

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Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other Picture Quote #1

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art Picture Quote #1

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we’re completely unequal to dealing with it Picture Quote #1

I think if ‘The Narrow Road To The Deep North’ is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points Picture Quote #1

$Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost Picture Quote #1$

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist Picture Quote #1

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It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia Picture Quote #1

In the end you’re not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that Picture Quote #1

Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity Picture Quote #1

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true Picture Quote #1

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic Picture Quote #1

In the end you’re not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that Picture Quote #1

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I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on Picture Quote #1

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you’re writing, you’re writing nothing worth reading Picture Quote #1

I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes Picture Quote #1

I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away Picture Quote #1

I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write Picture Quote #1

I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself Picture Quote #1

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I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families Picture Quote #1

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write Picture Quote #1

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world Picture Quote #1

I am an admirer of haiku, and I’m a great admirer of Japanese literature in general Picture Quote #1

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is Picture Quote #1

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more Picture Quote #1

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My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer’s daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the ‘fair go.’ (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That’s what writing does - it allows you to say all those things. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we’re completely unequal to dealing with it. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I think if ‘The Narrow Road To The Deep North’ is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia (Richard Flanagan Quotes) In the end you’re not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true (Richard Flanagan Quotes) The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic. (Richard Flanagan Quotes) In the end you’re not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you’re writing, you’re writing nothing worth reading (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world (Richard Flanagan Quotes) I am an admirer of haiku, and I’m a great admirer of Japanese literature in general (Richard Flanagan Quotes) Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is (Richard Flanagan Quotes) History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more (Richard Flanagan Quotes)

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