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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
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
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
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
chooks. You cannot go away and leave
— 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
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
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
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
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
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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— Peter Carey