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Don't let fear decide your future. — Shalane Flanagan

Being prisoner great shame. Great! Redeem honour building railway for Emperor. Great honour. Great! — Richard Flanagan

How will I ever carry out diplomatic missions without someone to throw unpleasant nobles out the window?" "I'll — John Flanagan

They were men like other young men, unknown to themselves. So much that lay within them they were now travelling to meet. — Richard Flanagan

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him. — John Flanagan

Don't be afraid to dream of achieving the impossible. — Shalane Flanagan

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging. — Richard Flanagan

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish. — John Flanagan

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it. — Richard Flanagan

I dont wish it were easier. I just wish I was better — Shalane Flanagan

So we've written a saga," he said. "The Saga of Hal and the Heron Brotherband." "Oh Gorlog help us," Hal muttered. — John Flanagan

I'll be needing a bridesmaid',she said.'A tall one. That way, I'll look more petite and feminine. — John Flanagan

But sometimes [love] was just there: ... he was ... shocked to know he had been lucky to live and know it, to love and be loved. — Richard Flanagan

Men ... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. — John Flanagan

And one thing, as they sometimes do, led not to another, but shattered a world. — Richard Flanagan

Ulysses'. No one reads him anymore. No one reads anything anymore. They think Browning is a gun. — Richard Flanagan

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce. — Richard Flanagan

Welcome to Shelter Bay,' he said to Stig. 'Is that what it's called?' Hal gave him a tired grin. 'It is now'. — John Flanagan

In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers. — Richard Flanagan

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew. — Richard Flanagan

I'll build mine tomorrow," Horace said through a mouthful of food. "This is excellent, Will! When I have grandchildren, I'll name them all after you! — John Flanagan

Never take your eyes off them," Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. "Didn't MacNeil ever tell you that? — John Flanagan

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist. — Richard Flanagan

Adversity brings out the best in us ... It's everyday living that does us in. — Richard Flanagan

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. — Richard Flanagan

Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us. — Richard Flanagan

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man. — Michael Bloomberg

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia. — Richard Flanagan

It is very rewarding to feel and see progress. I am going to put my head down and keep plugging away. I believe the best is yet to come. — Shalane Flanagan

smell its acrid horsehair upholstery and stale flour, — Richard Flanagan

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well. — Richard Flanagan

Pushing away, pushing in: the pattern of so much that was to follow. — Richard Flanagan

A world of dew and within every dewdrop a world of struggle. ISSA — Richard Flanagan

For the rest of his life he would yield to circumstance and expectation, coming to call these strange weights duty. — Richard Flanagan

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong. — John Flanagan

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. — Richard Flanagan

My mother hoped I'd be a plumber. — Richard Flanagan

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books. — Richard Flanagan

You'd be surprised what people will believe. Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it. — John Flanagan

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. — Richard Flanagan

Include me out," he — John Flanagan

name is Markos, he said. But call me Marco. — Richard Flanagan

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money. — Richard Flanagan

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. — Fionnula Flanagan

I do not come out of a literary tradition. — Richard Flanagan

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up. — Caitlin Flanagan

You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are. — John Flanagan

The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.
— John Flanagan

People kept on longing for meaning and hope, but the annals of the past are a muddy story of chaos only. — Richard Flanagan

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me. — Richard Flanagan

It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know. — John Flanagan

In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. — Richard Flanagan

Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact. — Hallie Flanagan

Sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It isn't even wit at all. — John Flanagan

Dreaming Of A Stranger Destinations — Sheila O'Flanagan

I'm too set in my ways to start doing the right thing," he complained. "You're a bad influence, Horace. — John Flanagan

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit. — John Flanagan

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. — Caitlin Flanagan

Doesn't matter which is which," he said cheerfully. "They're both idiots. — John Flanagan

Mind you, Princess Cassandra used to stalk us when she sneaked out of the castle as a girl. — John Flanagan

Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon. — Richard Flanagan

true authority came from sharing the hard work, not attempting to place oneself above it. — John Flanagan

Darky was always looking for the good thing, no matter how small, and consequently he often found it. — Richard Flanagan

Words are mostly used to keep us asleep, not to wake us. — Richard Flanagan

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself. — John Flanagan

It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach. — John Flanagan

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul. — Richard Flanagan

And how if she didn't see him for another thirty years she would still love him, how she would still love him if he was dead until she was dead too. — Richard Flanagan

settle on one direction — John Flanagan

People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues. — Fionnula Flanagan

All men were liars and he was no doubt no different - only one tongue and more tales than the dog pound. — Richard Flanagan

From the beginning, I got all Emirates cabin crew applicants psychometrically tested. Those who didn't want to be nice to others got rejected. — Maurice Flanagan

Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few. — Richard Flanagan

Halt looked up at the trees above him.
"Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees.
Naturally, they didn't answer. — John Flanagan

JavaScript derives its syntax from Java, its first-class functions from Scheme, and its prototype-based inheritance from Self. But — David Flanagan

Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands ... — John Flanagan

Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it. — John Flanagan

We dream our dreams away. — Bud Flanagan

death poem of Hyakka, — Richard Flanagan

Now I know that if you wait till you think you are ready, you'll wait all your life. — John Flanagan

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us. — Richard Flanagan

All life is only allegory and the real story is not here ... — Richard Flanagan

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated. — Caitlin Flanagan

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented. — Caitlin Flanagan

Orman nodded wearily 'As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him — John Flanagan

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness. — Richard Flanagan

I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write. — Richard Flanagan

His fame seemed to him a failure of perception on the part of others. — Richard Flanagan

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. — Richard Flanagan

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things. — Richard Flanagan

And every word sounded both a defence against what he truly felt and a betrayal of all that he was. — Richard Flanagan

As long as we were living in the spirit we would continue to be blessed — Crystal Flanagan

Tug looked nervously at his master.
Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying. — John Flanagan

haven't seen hide nor hair of her, — John Flanagan

He ... discovered that people's goodwill was frequently in inverse relationship to their position ... — Richard Flanagan

If everything is done for me ... how will I ever learn? — John Flanagan

Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things. — John Flanagan

Sometimes I'm so devious I confuse myself. — John Flanagan

The only people who believe in straight roads are generals & mail coach drivers. — Richard Flanagan

Hangovers had a way of teaching people that drinking alcohol was not a good idea. — John Flanagan