Colleen McCullough Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow”
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“If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!”
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“There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.”
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“And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.”
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“Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.”
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“Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.”
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“My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.”
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“Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.”
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“There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.”
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“Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention”
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“The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.”
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“I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.”
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“... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.”
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“It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice”
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“In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.”
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“There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.”
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“How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.”
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“I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.”
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“duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.”
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“There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.”
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“I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.”
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“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”
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“Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.”
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“...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.”
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“Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind”
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“When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.”
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“What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?”
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“Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.”
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“Truly God was good, to make man so blind.”
-- Colleen McCullough
