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• A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

  Richard Flanagan

  Book, Soul, Good Book

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.38, Vintage

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• A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

  Richard Flanagan

  Pasado, Hombres, Infelices

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.14, Vintage

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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.

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  Past, Ideas, Evil

  Richard Flanagan (2016). “Gould's Book of Fish”, p.423, Random House

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• There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

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  Mean, One Sentence, Sentences

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.141, Vintage

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• The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other.

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  Dream, Hate, Lying

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• Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

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  Love Is, Glimpse, Abandon

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• Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are interesting, not the anatomical descriptions.

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  Sex, Writing, Interesting

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• Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

  Richard Flanagan

  Arte, Lectura, Escritura

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• 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.

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  Art, Men, Giving

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• En los países occidentales tenemos la estúpida idea de que el progreso trae la libertad. Pero el progreso no trae necesariamente la virtud moral.

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  Country, Progress, Moral

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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.

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  Art, Lying, Writing

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• What reality was ever made by realists?

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  Reality, Realist, Made

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.32, Vintage

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• El asesinato y el odio están tan profundamente enterrados en el corazón humano como el amor, tal vez más, y en verdad están bastante entrelazados, y si trataras de separarlos, te estarías perdiendo algo importante y humano.

  Richard Flanagan

  Hate, Heart, Missing

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• I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.

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  Spiritual, Mirrors, Expression

  "Man Booker prize-winner Richard Flanagan's acceptance speech in full" by Richard Flanagan, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.

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• A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters. It's not for him to suffer or to laugh or to experience ecstasy or agony in the manner of the characters on the pages.

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  Character, Agony, Laughing

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• I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

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  Fall, Thinking, Wish

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• We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting.

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  Heart, Hands, Years

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.233, Vintage

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• I think writing should be about change.

  Richard Flanagan

  Escribir, Pensar, Debería

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• Es un pecado que un escritor vaya buscando camellos que meter en sus páginas. Sólo quiero detalles que sean la historia.

  Richard Flanagan

  Camels, Details, Stories

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• The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

  Richard Flanagan

  Giving Up, Survival, Path

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.184, Vintage

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• I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I've been lucky. For many years, all I've done is writing, and it's all I've ever wanted to do.

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  Jobs, Grateful, Writing

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• I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a writer', 'I'm an artist'. Too much is made of the role and not enough of the work. We are such a celebrity-driven age and a status-driven age, that the status becomes more important than the actual work.

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  Artist, People, Important

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• I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.

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  Jobs, Pain, Thinking

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• The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.

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  Quién eres

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• I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

  Richard Flanagan

  Years, People, Lost

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