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It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing. — Tim Winton

Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all. — Nicholas Winton

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest. — Tim Winton

Inside those waves our voices bounced back at us, deeper and larger for all the noise, like the voices of men. — Tim Winton

You can hide in someone else's rage - it blinds them — Tim Winton

It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy. — Tim Winton

Thinks the sun shines out yer clacker. — Tim Winton

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological. — Tim Winton

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet. — Tim Winton

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have — Tim Winton

Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity. — Tim Winton

I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro. — Mariella Frostrup

The past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over. — Tim Winton

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared. — Tim Winton

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you. — Tim Winton

Time to experiment. Necessity being the motherfucker of whatever is in its way. — Tim Winton

Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he'd waste — Tim Winton

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger. — Nicholas Winton

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. — Tim Winton

I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious. — Nicholas Winton

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out. — Nicholas Winton

Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform. — Tim Winton

Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today. — Tim Winton

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good. — Nicholas Winton

I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems. — Tim Winton

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years. — Nicholas Winton

Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else. People — Tim Winton

It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night. — Tim Winton

I've always enjoyed doing work that intrudes, or helps people. — Nicholas Winton

I meant to slip away, he said, busking it now. — Tim Winton

Genre? What's that? — June Winton

There are no wastelands in our landscape quite like those we've created ourselves. — Tim Winton

He was free and unencumbered. Which is to say alone and unemployed. — Tim Winton

I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way to do it. — Nicholas Winton

Was this what he wanted? Some sort of domesticated bliss? Yes. He decided. He wasted it all. The whole gift wrapped Christmas Catalog Family Package. — Michele De Winton

That eye ... was like a fuckin hole in the universe — Tim Winton

Keep the day ahead of you, that's what the old man used to say. — Tim Winton

People are fools, not monsters — Tim Winton

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it. — Tom Winton

If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it, — Nicholas Winton

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water. — Tim Winton

He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless. — Tim Winton

It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about. — Tim Winton

I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living
— Tim Winton

Nicolas Morganti had stalked back into her life, stamped his foot, and demanded to stay. — Michele De Winton

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers — Tim Winton

I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks. — Tom Winton

Here, said the nuggety bald fixture. You look dry as a camel's cookie. — Tim Winton

You look great, he said. Oh, get fucked, she said, grinning. — Tim Winton

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake. — Tim Winton

Everyone will tell you your goal is impossible, pointless, stupid, wasteful. So you hang tough. You back yourslef and only yourself. — Tim Winton