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And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him
In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars. ~ A.B. Paterson
Australian Literature quotes by A.B. Paterson
love, real love, comes with three conditions - respect, kindness and trust. It isn't, and should never be, unconditional. ~ Megan Jacobson
Australian Literature quotes by Megan Jacobson
His great carved wooden head was marked with a black eye that was more yellow than black and from this spectacular bed of bruised flesh the eye itself, sand irritated, bloodshot, as wild as a currawong's, stared out at a landscape in which the tops of fences protruded from windswept sand. ~ Peter Carey
Australian Literature quotes by Peter Carey
Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you looked out and saw the possible, the spaces, the maybes... ~ Tim Winton
Australian Literature quotes by Tim Winton
the most important things can't be lassoed with language. The most important things can only be felt. ~ Megan Jacobson
Australian Literature quotes by Megan Jacobson
The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like a juggler and catching them deftly again behind. It raced knee-deep through the clefts and crevices, twisted and tortured in a thousand ways, till it swept nuzzling and sucking into the holes at the base of the cliff. The whole reef was a shambles of foam, but it was bright in the sun, bright as a shattered mirror, exuberant and leaping with light. ~ Colin Thiele
Australian Literature quotes by Colin Thiele
If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it's his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that's different; it makes it worthwhile then. ~ Alan Marshall
Australian Literature quotes by Alan Marshall
Do not define me by my gender or my socio-economic status, Noah Willis. Do not tell me who I am and do not tell me who society thinks I am and then put me in that box and expect me to stay there. Because, I swear to God, I will climb the hell out of that box and I will take that box you've just put me in and I will use that box to smash your face in until you're nothing more than a freckly, bloodied pulp. You got that, sweet cheeks? ~ Megan Jacobson
Australian Literature quotes by Megan Jacobson
Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited. ~ Tim Winton
Australian Literature quotes by Tim Winton
here is nothing to see, however, and not a soul to meet. You might walk for twenty miles along this track without being able to fix a point in your mind, unless you are a bushman. This is because of the everlasting, maddening sameness of the stunted trees - that monotony which makes a man long to break away and travel as far as trains can go, and sail as far as ship can sail - and farther. ~ Henry Lawson
Australian Literature quotes by Henry Lawson
Because we were stranded together and because I stuttered, we read. there is no refuge so private, no asylum more sane. There is no facility of voices captured elsewhere so entire and so marvellous. My tongue was lumpish and fixed, but in reading, silent reading, there was a release, a flight, a wheeling off into the blue spaces of exclamatory experience, diffuse and improbable, gloriously homeless. All that was solid melted into air, all that was air reshaped, and gained plausibility. (p. 43) ~ Gail Jones
Australian Literature quotes by Gail Jones
He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die -
There was courage in his quick impatient tread;
And he bore the badge of gameness in his bright and fiery eye,
And the proud and lofty carriage of his head. ~ A.B. Paterson
Australian Literature quotes by A.B. Paterson
Invisible magpies warbled in the plane trees. Softly, gently, never running out of melodic ideas, they perched among the leaves and spun out their endless tales. ~ Helen Garner
Australian Literature quotes by Helen Garner
It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change. ~ Helen Garner
Australian Literature quotes by Helen Garner
When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves in relation to an Anglo past and American present, for example, or airing the wounds suffered by indigenous Australia, or inhabiting those new frictions that result from our expanding cultural pluralism. Above all, it could teach us to dwell more easily in a landscape that did not accord with the metaphors and myth-kitty that was our northern inheritance. ~ George Williamson
Australian Literature quotes by George Williamson
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. ~ Thomas Keneally
Australian Literature quotes by Thomas Keneally
Sometimes books feel like the only thing that keep her sane. Actually, she knows that they're the only reason she's still even vaguely okay right now. That's what she clings to: reading great books and seeing great films and, for as long as she's immersed in them, being able to forget, if only for a short time, about the reality of her life. ~ Steph Bowe
Australian Literature quotes by Steph Bowe
There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials we all must bear. I think that even the most common-minded person in the land has inner thoughts and feelings which no one can share with him, and the higher one's organization the more one must suffer in that respect. ~ Miles Franklin
Australian Literature quotes by Miles Franklin
A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak.
This magpie was like that. ~ Colin Thiele
Australian Literature quotes by Colin Thiele
The burning off and the gathering together are one. ~ Billy Marshall Stoneking
Australian Literature quotes by Billy Marshall Stoneking
She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made people laugh, that sensible streak in her, but it also made her someone of substance. ~ Tim Winton
Australian Literature quotes by Tim Winton
I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement. ~ Miles Franklin
Australian Literature quotes by Miles Franklin
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and the public sees us. The theatrical illusion is shattered if we ask what goes on behind the scenes. In real life discovery and justification are almost always different processes. ~ Peter Medawar
Australian Literature quotes by Peter Medawar
Life is a book. We write in everyday existence. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Australian Literature quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom. ~ Doppo Kunikida
Australian Literature quotes by Doppo Kunikida
The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Australian Literature quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
The only genres I saw value in, which still conferred meaning, were diaries and essays, the types of literature that did not deal with narrative, that were not about anything, but just consisted of a voice, the voice of your own personality, a life, a face, a gaze you could meet. What is a work of art if not the gaze of another person? Not directed above us, nor beneath us, but at the same height as our own gaze. Art cannot be experienced collectively, nothing can, art is something you are alone with. You meet its gaze alone. ~ Karl Ove Knausgaard
Australian Literature quotes by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the "irresponsibility" of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when compared to life, because it is first and foremost important that a character be real, and as readers or watchers we tend to applaud any effort made towards the construction of that reality. We do not, of course, indulge actual people in the world this way at all. In real life, the fact that something seems real to someone is not enough to interest us, or to convince us that that reality is interesting. But the self-reality of fictional characters is deeply engrossing, which is why villains are lovable in literature in ways that they are not in life. ~ James Wood
Australian Literature quotes by James Wood
You are hurrying to the sweet place,
To the nonsense chasing your spirit
And in the nonsense you look for answers. ~ Dejan Stojanovic
Australian Literature quotes by Dejan Stojanovic
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ~ H.L. Mencken
Australian Literature quotes by H.L. Mencken
Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to. ~ Holly Black
Australian Literature quotes by Holly Black
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Australian Literature quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone ... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone's eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island. ~ Jonathan Hull
Australian Literature quotes by Jonathan Hull
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Australian Literature quotes by Henry David Thoreau
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. ~ Norman MacCaig
Australian Literature quotes by Norman MacCaig
What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?"
Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-five years ago. Reading a classic to a child whose imagination is in a state of retarded development will not foster a love of literature in that child. ~ Jim Trelease
Australian Literature quotes by Jim Trelease
Literature is concerned with the self-conscious exploration of the lives of men, women and children in society. Even when it is comic, it sees life as something worth talking about. This is why airport fiction, or 'blockbusters', books which are all plot, can never be considered literature, and why, in the end, they are of little value. It is not only that the language in which they are written lacks bounce and poignancy, but that they don't return the reader to the multifariousness and complication of existence… In literature personality is all, and the exploration of character – or portraiture, the human subject – is central to it. ~ Hanif Kureishi
Australian Literature quotes by Hanif Kureishi
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. ~ Honore De Balzac
Australian Literature quotes by Honore De Balzac
Youth isn't wasted on the young, literature is. ~ Julia Claiborne Johnson
Australian Literature quotes by Julia Claiborne Johnson
The problem with cliches is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones. The sun is often on fire at sunset and the moon discreet, but if we keep saying this every time we encounter a sun or a moon, we will end up believing that this is the last rather than the first word to be said on the subject. Cliches are detrimental insofar as they inspire us to believe that they adequately describe a situation while merely grazing its surface. ~ Alain De Botton
Australian Literature quotes by Alain De Botton
Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German thread of the metaphysic - they were looking for the beyond in dreams. ~ Dumitru Tepeneag
Australian Literature quotes by Dumitru Tepeneag
Reason is not what decides love. ~ Moliere
Australian Literature quotes by Moliere
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. ~ Karl Kraus
Australian Literature quotes by Karl Kraus
Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as a novelist?
A: One wishes to create characters who will speak directly to the minds of comparative literature professors and intelligent book reviewers. ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
Australian Literature quotes by Gilbert Sorrentino
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. ~ Frederick Sanger
Australian Literature quotes by Frederick Sanger
I have a huge passion for literature. ~ Emily Perkins
Australian Literature quotes by Emily Perkins
If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy. ~ Ethan Hawke
Australian Literature quotes by Ethan Hawke
We've covered ourselves with everything we own, plus a snow blanket on top. It does provide warmth. The snow is everywhere - our pillows, our hair. You stick your head out, take a deal breath, slip under the covers again and breathe out. Feels warm. The snow on your hair melts, then turns to ice. A winter hat. Silence. Darkness... The only thing visible is the snow. ~ Dalia Grinkevičiūtė
Australian Literature quotes by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė
Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz. ~ Frederic G. Kenyon
Australian Literature quotes by Frederic G. Kenyon
This is how I feel, every day, and people don't want to know that. They want to know that I'm feeling what Tom Jones makes you feel. Or that Australian girl who used to be in Neighbours. But I feel like this, and they won't play what I feel on the radio, because people that are sad don't fit in. ~ Nick Hornby
Australian Literature quotes by Nick Hornby
If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to train that taste, whether it be in art, in music or in literature. ~ Charles Webster Leadbeater
Australian Literature quotes by Charles Webster Leadbeater
I talk about being Australian a lot. ~ Poppy Montgomery
Australian Literature quotes by Poppy Montgomery
Being an asshole? Or quoting classic literature? ~ Julie Ann Walker
Australian Literature quotes by Julie Ann Walker
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely ~ Arnold Bennett
Australian Literature quotes by Arnold Bennett
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something. ~ Bob Woodward
Australian Literature quotes by Bob Woodward
I am a success at last. We get annihilated. There is no mercy. The word "friendly" is never used in the same context again. "Friendly," according to The Australian Little Oxford Dictionary, means "acting or disposed to act as friend." The word "act" is very apt. The girls glare at me. They need to put a face to their misery and I'm it. From then on, whenever someone uses the words "the basketball game," there is no question which one they are referring to. This ~ Melina Marchetta
Australian Literature quotes by Melina Marchetta
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?' ~ Geraldine Brooks
Australian Literature quotes by Geraldine Brooks
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials. ~ Clarke Peters
Australian Literature quotes by Clarke Peters
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is sensitive; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture
in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers. ~ Andrea Dworkin
Australian Literature quotes by Andrea Dworkin
The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has high assurance in anything he does combined with a gnawing lack of confidence in anything he thinks. ~ Robin Boyd
Australian Literature quotes by Robin Boyd
As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature we may not be seeking mere reassurance nor be impelled by mere nostalgia. To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world. In one of T. S. Eliot's poems a bird sings, "Mankind cannot bear very much reality." I've always thought that bird was mistaken, or was talking only about some people. I find it amazing how much of the real world most of us can endure. Not only endure, but need, desire, crave. Reality is life. Where we suffocate is in the half-life of unreality, untruth, imitation, fakery, the almost-true that is not true. To be human is to live both within and beyond the narrow band of what-happens-now, in the vast regions of the past and the possible, the known and the imagined: our real world, our true Now. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Australian Literature quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Interrogate your instincts. Insecurity isn't shameful. Attraction isn't an embarrassment. Interpersonal affection isn't a side note to be glossed over. Whatever the nature of the material that forms between two people, it's the backbone of literature. ~ Riley Redgate
Australian Literature quotes by Riley Redgate
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