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.
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 conscious… - David Malouf
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 conscious…
- David Malouf
All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined. - David Malouf
All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.
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 … - David Malouf
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 …
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 n… - David Malouf
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 n…
I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up. - David Malouf
I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.
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 m… - David Malouf
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 m…
I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives u… - David Malouf
I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives u…
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us t… - David Malouf
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us t…
I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think - David Malouf
I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think
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