Richard Flanagan Quotes

I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points.

Richard Flanagan

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FatherCultureExperienceDeathRoad

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Jim Rohn

ValuePlacePaidGetMarket

I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.

Jesse Eisenberg

AgePeopleFeelFriendsKnowMature

I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

John Lydon

LoveChangeCarNonsenseReason

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

Mavis Staples

MusicJoyJustAbsolute

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

Jean Tinguely

ArtSchoolComplexArtsFineGoes

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

John Waters

ImpossibleBrandSomeoneYouWrong

'The Marriage of Souls', like 'The Rationalist', is an exploration of humanist philosophy wrapped between the delicate leaves of an eighteenth-century tale. The story of the two novels - and they should be read as a two-volume work - centres around the old war-horse of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl. But what a boy and what a girl.

Amanda Foreman

WorkMarriageGirlStoryPhilosophy

I hate being tan.

Stephen Malkmus

HateTanBeing

I have a tough stomach, and I've put myself through a lot. But when I first found out what happens to animals on modern factory farms and in today's slaughterhouses, I wanted to throw up - I literally couldn't believe it.

Steve-O

TodayMyselfToughBelieveAnimals

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Sienna Miller

AttentionHonestCopingWellVery

As a writer, I can't be a heroic sword fighter like General Dumas, but I can rescue someone who's been taken out of history by using my writing to bring them back.

Tom Reiss

HistoryWritingSomeoneBackI Can

No. I was an only child.

Robert Fulghum

ChildOnly ChildOnly

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