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

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

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

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty. — Richard 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

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

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy. — Richard Flanagan

I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan

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

He continued to believe that, like everything else in his life, it would be righted by the sheer force of his will — Richard Flanagan

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing. — Richard Flanagan

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

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century. — Richard Flanagan

My purpose holds, To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars until I die. — Richard Flanagan

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. — Richard Flanagan

He read and reread 'Ulysses'. He looked back at Amy. They were the first beautiful thing I ever knew, Dorrigo Evans said. — Richard Flanagan

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss. — 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

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

How empty is the world when you lose the one you love — Richard Flanagan

And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Richard Flanagan

I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away. — Richard Flanagan

The sum of such chaos was that I seemed to be reading a book that never really started and never quite finished. — Richard Flanagan

He had avoided what he regarded as some obvious errors of life, such as politics and golf. — Richard Flanagan

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil. — Richard Flanagan

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

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

The imprisoning scent of jasmine that always awakened in him a desire to flee. — Richard Flanagan

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general. — Richard Flanagan

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

I think writing should be about change. — Richard Flanagan

One man's feeling is not always equal to all life is. Sometimes it's not equal to anything much at all. — Richard Flanagan

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

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

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

In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that. — Richard Flanagan

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan

Without love, what was the world? — Richard Flanagan

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other. — Richard Flanagan

Memory's only like justice, because it is another wrong idea that makes people feel right. — Richard Flanagan

I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway. — Richard Flanagan

Feeling became fashionable and emotion became a theatre in which people were players who no longer knew who they were off the stage. — Richard Flanagan

No, Colonel Kota replied, stepping backwards and flipping open his Kuomintang cigarette case to proffer another cigarette — Richard Flanagan

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women. — Richard Flanagan

Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts. — Richard Flanagan

The more people I am with, Dorrigo thought, the more alone I feel. — Richard Flanagan

I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on. — Richard Flanagan

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading. — Richard Flanagan

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls. — Richard Flanagan

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue. — Richard Flanagan

The only accusation of Gillian Triggs with the ring of truth is that she has lost the confidence of the government - but then, so too has Tony Abbott. — Richard Flanagan

For a moment he wondered:what if this had all been a mask for the most terrible evil? The idea was too horrific to hold on to. — Richard Flanagan

He could never admit to himself that it was death that had given his life meaning. — Richard Flanagan

Auger-eyed woman's small stout form, outlining her — Richard Flanagan

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan

Thinking: The world is. It just is. — Richard Flanagan

It's only our faith in illusions that makes life possible...It's believing in reality that does us in every time. — Richard Flanagan

I am part of all that I have met. — Richard Flanagan

I wrote. Something. Yes.
And you were truthful.
No.
You weren't truthful?
I was accurate. — Richard Flanagan

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

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

My mother hoped I'd be a plumber. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

death poem of Hyakka, — Richard 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

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

Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted. — Richard Flanagan

where is truth to be found — Richard Flanagan

You could never know when everything might change - a mood, a decision, a blanket. A life. They — Richard Flanagan

... being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many. — Richard Flanagan

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books. — Richard Flanagan

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. — 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

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world. — Richard Flanagan

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. — Richard 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

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

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

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

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

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

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