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A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
~ Richard Flanagan
Failure
Father
Memoir
Novel
Would
Would-Be
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A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.
~ Richard Flanagan
Abandon
Advised
Believe
Change
Climate
Climate Change
Does
Emissions
Her
His
Julia
Kevin
Labor
Minister
Nevertheless
Prime
Prime Minister
Scheme
Trading
Who
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A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.
~ Richard Flanagan
Discover
Journey
Novel
Others
Own
Seek
Share
Soul
Things
Those
You
Your
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A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.
~ Richard Flanagan
Mark
Never
Own
Page
Should
Tears
Writer
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After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.
~ Richard Flanagan
After
Always
Characters
Could
Listen
Maxim
Much
Need
Novel
Novelist
Plots
Rather
Say
Several
Words
Writing
Years
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Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.
~ Richard Flanagan
Among
Australians
Ballot
Many
Other
Reforms
Secret
Suffrage
Universal
Universal Suffrage
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An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
~ Richard Flanagan
Man
Middle-Aged
Middle-Aged Man
Mines
Pays
Unskilled
Well
Work
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As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
~ Richard Flanagan
Act
Books
Duty
Free
Novelist
You
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Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.
~ Richard Flanagan
Advanced
Australia
Australians
Black
Change
Climate
Climate Change
Economies
Know
Many
Most
Only
Perhaps
Reminded
Saturday
Too
Vulnerable
Well
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Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.
~ Richard Flanagan
Amazon
Companies
Like
Terrifying
Writer
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Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean.
~ Richard Flanagan
About
Age
Controversial
Everything
Fluid
Mean
More
Old
Older
Painted
Perhaps
Recent
Them
Uncertain
Who
Years
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Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.
~ Richard Flanagan
Does
Family
Friends
Love
Love You
Matter
Matters
Say
Things
Those
Who
Writing
You
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For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'
~ Richard Flanagan
20th Century
Australia
Believed
Century
Country
Fair
Generous
Go
Good
Itself
Land
Large
Latter
Much
Opening
Part
Seemed
Something
Up
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Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.
~ Richard Flanagan
Around
Books
Create
Discussion
Generally
Literary
Prizes
Significant
Who
Winner
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God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
~ Richard Flanagan
Gets
God
Great
Great Stories
Make
More
Mundane
Must
Novelists
Stories
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History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
~ Richard Flanagan
Back
Ever
Find
History
Journalism
Journey
Like
More
Must
Report
You
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Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.
~ Richard Flanagan
Book
Contained
Does
Form
Given
Horror
Just
Life
Meaning
More
Than
Within
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I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.
~ Richard Flanagan
Admirer
Am
General
Great
I Am
Japanese
Literature
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I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.
~ Richard Flanagan
Am
Being
Happiest
I Am
I Love
Love
People
Writing
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I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
~ Richard Flanagan
Am
Course
Great
Greatly
Honoured
I Am
Literary
Prizes
Which
Win
World
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