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A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.
— Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.
— Richard Flanagan
Tags: never, i-am, moment, you
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.
— Richard Flanagan
Tags: ballot, suffrage, universal, secret
I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.
— Richard Flanagan
Tags: sex, people, history, love
A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.
— Richard Flanagan
Tags: who, believe, climate-change, change
My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.
— Richard Flanagan
Tags: about, he, way, father
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