Thomas Keneally Quotes
Thomas Keneally Quotes
Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful.
2960 Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
1541 The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.
1735 Vina e un vis, mila e singura realitate.
4850 But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was - perhaps rightly - scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.
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