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Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. — Peter Carey

About her husband, i did actually enquire, but she held her private life so fucking tightly, like a tourist clutching a handbag on the A train,.. — Peter Carey

Man is born free and is everywhere in chains — Peter Carey

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel. — Peter Carey

It was a knife of an idea, a cruel instrument of sacrifice, but also one of great beauty, silvery, curved, dancing with light. — Peter Carey

We are alive on the very brink of eternity. — Peter Carey

How do you know how much to pay if you don't know what it's worth? — Peter Carey

Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown. — 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. — Peter Carey

I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me. — Phil Klay

All Butcher's previous politeness was revealed as so much bad milk floating in a cup of welcome tea ... — Peter Carey

To refrigerate a clock was an extremely violent act, not one I could explain to anyone. — Peter Carey

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

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure. — Peter Carey

A cormorant broke the surface, like an improbable idea tearing the membrane between dreams and life. — Peter Carey

Your morals are your own affair, mum. As are my own. — Peter Carey

Then I fell in love and everything went to hell. — Peter Carey

The clouds was light but queerly yellow on their edges as they moved across the ageless constellations. — Peter Carey

I knew I had been lonely, Mem, yet I had no understanding of my desolation until my skin was finally touched. — Peter Carey

She felt his personality to be round and smooth and free from nasty spikes. — Peter Carey

chooks. You cannot go away and leave — Peter Carey

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

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life. — Peter Carey

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it. — Peter Carey

It made me comfortable. It was a house where you could put your feet up and drink French champagne or Ballarat Bitter according to your mood. — Peter Carey

Owever she was a woman and I'd have more luck conjuring up the thoughts of a chinaman than I would figuring out what she was conspiring — Peter Carey

Everything we knew from life suggested that America would do what it liked ... — Peter Carey

At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man — Peter Carey

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. — 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

Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself. — Peter Carey

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

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little. — Peter Carey

Swimming always cleans your soul — Peter Carey

The cicadas, as if they were wired on the same circuit, suddenly filled the garden with a loud burst of celebration. — Peter Carey

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

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before. — Peter Carey

Oh, we were a degree or two hotter than improper. — Peter Carey

She could marry this man, she knew, and still be captain of her soul. — Peter Carey

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. — Peter Carey

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

What a torture to hear that a life had been available to me that I had not been man enough to live. — Peter Carey

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I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home.
Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots. — Peter Carey