"I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max."

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Max Walker

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“Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.”
“A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.”
“Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that â€“ having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] â€“ I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.”
“Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you donâ€™t see the same view twice. Not going back so you can turn a new page, write a new chapter, develop an entire new list. Not going back so you can stretch and grow and see yourself in a light that you never knew existed. Not going back so that you can fly. Fly.”
“I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me”
“A lot of times, guys are just out there playing and they'll just go and get you. I don't really think they're thinking about the helmet-to-helmet contact. You'll probably see a lot of players more hesitant before they make their hits.”
“I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.”
“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”

Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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