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I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

Peter Carey
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I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

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It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

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Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

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The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

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Swimming always cleans your soul

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To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

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Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

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People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

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My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

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