Tobsha Learner Quotes

• Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Knowledge, Information, Empires

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• The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Hate, Worst Enemy, Hatred

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• We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  A veces

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• So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

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  Men, Causes, Action

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• No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.

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  Strong, Aunt, Feminist

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• Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Men, Design, Perception

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• Trust is won not given.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Trust, Given

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• Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Eye, Tears, Onions

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• You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Love Is, Men, Appreciate

  Tobsha Learner (2008). “Soul”, p.136, Macmillan

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• Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Weakness, Crafts, Firsts

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• Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Play, Different, Pieces

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• I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Atheist, Father, Philosophy

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• To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Aphrodisiac, Desirable

  Tobsha Learner (1996). “Quiver: a book of erotic tales”

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• As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Moving, Challenges, Balance

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". Women's Weekly interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Passion, Sea, Desire

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• Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps?

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Morning, Ravens, Two

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• The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

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  Distance, Long, Novelists

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Si

  Tobsha Learner (1996). “Quiver: a book of erotic tales”

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• La memoria es una gran engañadora: borda hasta que no queda más que la gloria y el placer.

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  Memories, Glory, Pleasure

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• A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Past, Men, Blind

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• Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Faith, Children, Believe

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• Living is a hazardous profession.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Life, Profession

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• It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

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  Women, Responsibility, Widows

  Tobsha Learner (2008). “Soul”, p.213, Macmillan

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• Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

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  Writing, New Relationship, Emotional

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• Danger is an aphrodisiac.

  Tobsha Estudiante

  Aphrodisiac, Danger

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