"My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord."

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Source : Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.63, The Floating Press

Miles Franklin

#Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wind Quotes

“I worked with Judi Dench in Cranford. She's not at all starry, she's very easy and funny to be around, but I had such an enormous respect and regard for her before I met her that I was quite starstruck.”
“We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.”
“I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.”
“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
“It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house. It's really, really true. A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream.”

Source : Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.54, Random House
“When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.”

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