“Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely… It is simply the most ordinary place in the world…It was so shabby and makeshift … a place where poetry could never occur.”
― David Malouf, quote from Johnno
“Still the fact remains, he had me hooked. As he had, of course, from the beginning. I had been writing my book about Johnno from the moment we met.”
― David Malouf, quote from Johnno
“I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.”
― David Malouf, quote from Johnno
“The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run than fact.”
― David Malouf, quote from Johnno
“Now as I began to sort through his “effects” it occurred to me how little I had really known him … I had forced upon my father the character that fitted most easily with my image of myself; to have had to admit to any complexity in him would have compromised my own.”
― David Malouf, quote from Johnno
David Malouf
Born place: in Brisbane, Australia
Born date March 20, 1934
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“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.
It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.
According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.”
― Karl Marx, quote from The Communist Manifesto
“Voi che vivete sicuri
Nelle vostre tiepide case
oi che trovate tornando a sera
Il cibo caldo e visi amici
Considerati si questo è un uomo
Che lavora nel gango
Che non conosce pace
Che lotta por mezzo pane
Che muore per un sì o per un no
Considerate se questa é una donna
Senza caplli e senza nome
Senza più forza di ricordare
Vuoti gli occhi e freddo il grembo
Come una rana d'inverno
Meditate che questo è stato
Vi comando queste parole
Scolpitele nem vuostro cuore
Stando in casa andando per via
Coricandovi alzandovi
Ripetelete ai vostri figli
O vi si sfaccia la casa
La malattia vi impedisca
I vostri nati torcano il viso da voi.”
― Primo Levi, quote from Survival in Auschwitz
“One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from Four: A Divergent Story Collection
“One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Firefly Lane
“We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.”
He steps closer, but hesitates.
“If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go.”
― Simone Elkeles, quote from Chain Reaction
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