Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

Richard Flanagan


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Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Richard Flanagan

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So there you have it: two things

Richard Flanagan

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Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated

Richard Flanagan

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definitions belong to the definer, not the defined,

Richard Flanagan

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The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

Richard Flanagan

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When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Richard Flanagan

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Richard Flanagan


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Under the influence of mercury, which he administered to himself daily as a salve for his syphilis,

Richard Flanagan

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-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history

Richard Flanagan

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