“Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
“He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
“She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
“The bronze-haired avenger of his father's death, already filled with the fierce light of the future, is at sea and sailing fast for Troy.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
“However the story is told and elaborated, the raw shame of it will be with him now til his last breath.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
David Malouf
Born place: in Brisbane, Australia
Born date March 20, 1934
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“Julius brooded. He could see Julius despising the medical school of Pavia. Tobie said, "Nicholas managed the journey from Flanders all right. Deferred to you, joked discreetly with me, got on like a dyeworks on fire with the muleteers.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from The Spring of the Ram
“The people welcome a new da yas if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.”
― Nancy Mitford, quote from The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
“Bu zaman zarfında Paul'un düşüncelerinden yoksun kalmıştım, başka başka yüzlerce, ortalaması son derece düşük çaplı kafa içinde boğulmama ramak kalmıştı, çünkü kendimizi aldatmayalım, çoğunlukla elimizin altında bulunan kafalar ilginç olmaktan uzaktır, zevksiz elbiselere sokulmuş bedenler üzerinde acınası ama ne yazık ki acımaya lâyık olmayan hayatlar sürdüren patates azmanlarından ne kadar hayır gelirse onlardan da o kadar gelir.”
― Thomas Bernhard, quote from Wittgenstein's Nephew
“Because I am your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-Grandmother. But”
― Angie Sage, quote from Physik
“Some of my subjects do not know what is good for them,”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
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