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| Australian Women ...: Brenda - Nominate my own goal (100 AWWs) | 214 | 73 | Dec 30, 2015 06:24PM | |
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“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about.”
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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
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“Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
― Rushing to Paradise
― Rushing to Paradise
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