"It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees."

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Robert Dessaix

#Tree Quotes #Woods Quotes #Defining Quotes

“Your guess is as good as mine.”

Source : "5 problems with California's 'affirmative consent' bill" by Ashe Schow, www.washingtonexaminer.com. August 28, 2014.
“Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.”
“A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down. Some people have written the story of my life representing as truth what in fact derives from ignorance, error or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it.”
“People tend to remember their dreams in the morning a little bit better and if earlier in the night, when you're in a lot of deep sleep, if someone wakes you, or the phone rings or something, you're really confused.”
“When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.”
“I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.”
“Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.”
“Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.”

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