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Richard Flanagan Quotes

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Richard Flanagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1961

Topics

Father Way Experiences He His Very

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.

Family Woman Child Grandmother Meal

When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.

School High School Year Out High

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Simple Man Design Kind Beginnings

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

Queen Me Who Made Foreign Elizabeth

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Funny Group Committee Hours Minutes

In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Devdutt Pattanaik

Age Responsibility Talent Society Go

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

Me Name New Principles Judgement

Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we're a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable.

Live Snow Border Reality Ice You

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

People Writing Remember Out Even

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Man Successful Man Years Successful

I divide my time badly.

Antonio Banderas

Time Divide My Time Badly

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

Today Teen Growing Up Small Growing

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