I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.
I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from. - Peter Carey
I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.
- Peter Carey
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. - Peter Carey
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.
To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely. - Peter Carey
To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.
Swimming always cleans your soul - Peter Carey
Swimming always cleans your soul
The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons. - Peter Carey
The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past. - Peter Carey
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else - Peter Carey
People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent. - Peter Carey
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before. - Peter Carey
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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