"A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else."

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Source : Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.14, Vintage

Richard Flanagan

#Men Quotes #Past Quotes #Unhappy Quotes

“Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .”
“From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread . Bread bowl George. First you eat the chili then you eat the bowl . There's nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table.”
“No one's being precious about their music. They want the film to be great. And that was the huge lesson for me along the way to be a filmmaker. And yes, I'm leading the music department kind of thing and that responsibility with the music is with me, but really that job is one of many.”
“My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think I'm a really hands-on mom.”
“Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.”
“But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.”

Source : "Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2013.

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