Joan Lindsay quotes
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“Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.”
-- Joan LindsaySource : Joan Lindsay (2016). “The Secret of Hanging Rock”, p.15, ETT Imprint
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“Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.”
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“Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.”
-- Joan LindsaySource : Joan Lindsay (1977). “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, Viking Pr
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“Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.”
-- Joan LindsaySource : Joan Lindsay (2014). “Picnic at Hanging Rock: A Novel”, p.89, Penguin
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