"Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant until we finally realize how much she has taken. Still, she is also a generous deity, who offers to replace what she has seized with a deeper wisdom and a clearer vision of life's enigmas. In this sense, time can be our most powerful ally-if we are patient enough."

-- Michael Kelleher

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“I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.”
“What would be the worst that could happen to me? Would they hang me?”
“Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.”

Source : Nikki Turner (2010). “Natural Born Hustler”, p.109, One World
“There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.”
“I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks.”
“It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.”
“If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.”
“I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening next; they mean they are so mesmerised by the writer's voice and the relationship that has been established that they don't want to break that. That's what I feel when I read, and I'm sure now that that's what's going on in the relationship between the reader and the writing.”

Source : "David Malouf - 'Dream Stuff'". Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. April 14, 2000.

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