Quotes from Ransom

David Malouf ·  224 pages

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“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



About the author

David Malouf
Born place: in Brisbane, Australia
Born date March 20, 1934
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