Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.
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.
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
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…
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 …
With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers. - David Malouf
With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.
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…
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.
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