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Robert Dessaix
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Night Letters
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1996
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15 editions
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Corfu
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2001
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11 editions
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What Days are For - A Memoir
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published
2014
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7 editions
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A mother's disgrace
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1994
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13 editions
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The Pleasures of Leisure
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Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
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published
2004
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10 editions
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The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well
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Arabesques
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published
2008
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8 editions
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As I Was Saying - A collection of musings
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published
2012
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3 editions
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And so forth
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published
1998
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2 editions
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“How do you irradiate the humbly trivial - the sneezes and waiting in bus-queues - with the lofty, and at the same time cherish above all in the lofty those things that nourish you here, today, in all your ordinariness? I cannot understand, in other words, what sort of God would bother to count every hair on my head.”
― Corfu
― Corfu
“Is happy the same as contented do you think?... as I see it, happiness is something that comes in bursts from outside – love at first sight, winning at chess, getting good news. Happiness is something that seizes you. ...I think of contentment as an everyday thing. It’s what you feel when you don’t want anything more – until you do. It’s nice, but it needs a shot of happiness now and again.”
― The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well
― The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well
“...'undertow'. It describes (...) how underneath our own everyday lives - the shopping and squabbles and weeding and trips to the vet - there's a sense of being dragged slowly off, not against our will but regardless of it. And fighting the undertow, as children are quick to learn, is not usually the best way of getting back to the beach. Floating along with it, on the other hand, can be fatal.
It's really the struggle, the argument with oneself, that interests...”
― Picador new writing
It's really the struggle, the argument with oneself, that interests...”
― Picador new writing
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| Aussie Readers: Annual Aussie Author Challenge 2019 | 420 | 429 | Dec 31, 2019 09:17PM | |
| Aussie Readers: **Summer Challenge 1/12/19 - 28/2/20** | 272 | 284 | Mar 28, 2020 08:21PM | |
| Aussie Readers: Annual A-Z Authors Challenge 2020 | 414 | 268 | Dec 30, 2020 10:27PM | |
| Aussie Readers: Annual Aussie Author Challenge 2020 | 316 | 322 | Jan 01, 2021 04:55PM |
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