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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
— Colleen McCullough
Duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.
— Colleen McCullough
orgy of sampling Europe's charms, she never went back, and that was strange. In his experience people always
— Colleen McCullough
I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.
— Susan Howatch
Living's for those of us who failed. Greedy God, gathering in the good ones, leaving the world to the rest of us, to rot.
— Colleen McCullough
Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.
— Colleen McCullough
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
— Colleen McCullough
I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.
— Colleen McCullough
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.
— Colleen McCullough
Lares of the Crossroads
— Colleen McCullough
stayed as close to Theatre as she could, working Casualty or Men's;
— Colleen McCullough
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
— Colleen McCullough
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
— Colleen McCullough
Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
— Colleen McCullough
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
— Colleen McCullough
There was some justice in his pain
— Colleen McCullough
All that appearance business is crap, and I'm not even going to be bothered arguing with you about it.
— Colleen McCullough
I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
— Colleen McCullough
Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.
— Colleen McCullough
Nothing is given without a disadvantage in it,
— Colleen McCullough
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
— Colleen McCullough
He best is only bought at the cost of great pain ... or so says the legend
— Colleen McCullough
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
— Colleen McCullough
The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.
— Colleen McCullough
If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
— Colleen McCullough
The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape, for men are not uniform.
— Colleen McCullough
In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
— Colleen McCullough
It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
— Colleen McCullough
He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.
— Colleen McCullough
He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too.
— Colleen McCullough
Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
— Colleen McCullough
loved, and indulged to the full extent of her father
— Colleen McCullough
My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.
— Colleen McCullough
When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.
— Colleen McCullough
How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
— Colleen McCullough
I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.
— Colleen McCullough
sold into an indentured servitude
— Colleen McCullough
Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind
— Colleen McCullough
No man sees himself in a mirror as he really is, nor any woman.
— Colleen McCullough
You just hang onto the thought that every dog has its day, even the bitches
— Colleen McCullough
Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.
— Colleen McCullough
She looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.
— Colleen McCullough
We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.
— Colleen McCullough
Age brought wisdom, but it also brought a genuine gratitude for the happiness of sharing life with someone as much liked as loved.
— Colleen McCullough
father could hope for in a son.To have
— Colleen McCullough
Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
— Colleen McCullough
Love isn't truly the body. Love is freedom to roam the heart and mind of the beloved.
— Colleen McCullough
But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.
— Colleen McCullough
That's the purpose of old age ... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
— Colleen McCullough
There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.
— Colleen McCullough
went to the cross eight months before His
— Colleen McCullough
But I'll pin you to the wall on your own weakness, I'll make you sell yourself like any painted whore." Mary Carson to Father Ralph.
— Colleen McCullough
For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.
— Colleen McCullough
Give a Greek enough rope and he'll hang everyone else in sight.
— Colleen McCullough
I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself.
— Sarah MacLean
The feeling of coming home, when she didn't want to come home any more than she wanted the liability of love.
— Colleen McCullough
You say you love me, but you have no idea what love is; you're just mouthing words you've memorized because you think they sound good!
— Colleen McCullough
she sat rocking his head back and forth, back and forth, until his grief expended itself in emptiness.
— Colleen McCullough
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
— Colleen McCullough
It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
— Colleen McCullough