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Richard Flanagan Quotes

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.

Richard Flanagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1961

Topics

Life Love Hope Art Darkness Death

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

John Fahey

Perspective I Am Looking Friends Am

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

John le Carre

Money Decisions Wrong Ridiculous Up

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

Ann Coulter

Time Wait Serving Dollar Vietnam He

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

Andy Gibb

People Me Writing Now My Own Right

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

Sophia Bush

Women Fight World Poverty See I See

My legacy is secure.

Tony Bellew

Legacy Secure

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

Robert Burton

First Kingdom Ancient Been Almost

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Rodney Dangerfield

Morning Me Underwear Laughing Hear

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Simplicity Think Doing Camera You

I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

Craig Ferguson

Myself Night Talking You Down Want

I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

Chris Van Allsburg

Dog You Know Want Accept Up

The state of Alabama can take my freedom, the state of Alabama can take my future, but the state of Alabama cannot take my joy.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Future Freedom Joy Alabama Take