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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tim Winton quotes: Thinks the sun shines out yer clacker.

Thinks the sun shines out yer clacker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: There are no wastelands in our landscape quite like those we've created ourselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

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

Tim Winton quotes: People are fools, not monsters

People are fools, not monsters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

Tim Winton quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living

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

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

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

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

That eye ... was like a fuckin hole in the universe

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

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

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

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

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

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