"I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up."

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Source : David Malouf (2015). “Johnno”, p.107, Univ. of Queensland Press

David Malouf

#Growing Up Quotes #Might Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough."”
“All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.”
“There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do . . . there are things I watch my hand do that are almost thoughtless. I can remember the moment of learning them. It is knowledge you have in the hand.”
“The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.”
“There's a reason you never see anyone's house with a Beware of Cat sign. Because they're not even worth mentioning.”
“That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.”
“I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.”
“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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