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Maruman does not loll.
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It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight,' Rushton said. 'There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end.
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If human lives be,
for their very brevity, sweet,
then beast lives are sweeter still ... — Isobelle Carmody
for their very brevity, sweet,
then beast lives are sweeter still ... — Isobelle Carmody
Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.
— Isobelle Carmody
Fools blow air out of their mouths as often as their bums, and either way it causes a stink and comes to nothing.
— Isobelle Carmody
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
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Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
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It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.
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Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
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Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
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All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.
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If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.
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First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.
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Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
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Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings
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Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
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I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.
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The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.
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The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
— Isobelle Carmody
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
— Isobelle Carmody
Speak less and say more
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Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully
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The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.
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The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
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What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.
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The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.
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Whole time. Partway through the night he began to keep so ostentatiously
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It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.
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Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
— Isobelle Carmody
It is not foolish to ask a question of the world. We of Vlar-rei make songs or our questions. It is only foolish to want answers.
— Isobelle Carmody