And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
Colleen McCullough
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I think explicit love scenes a...
I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.
Colleen McCullough
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My books and other works are m...
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
Colleen McCullough
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That's the purpose of old age....
That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
Colleen McCullough
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The bird with the thorn in its...
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.
Colleen McCullough
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Each of us has something withi...
Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pai
Colleen McCullough
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I escaped the torture of my ch...
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
Colleen McCullough
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..the best is only bought at t...
..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend
Colleen McCullough
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How frightening, that one pers...
How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
Colleen McCullough
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The lovely thing about being f...
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough
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There's a story... a legend, a...
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven
Colleen McCullough
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Oh, that feels good! I don't k...
Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention
Colleen McCullough
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Yet there's something ominous ...
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
Colleen McCullough
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My husband says it is very goo...
My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.
Colleen McCullough
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Once I've got the first draft ...
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
Colleen McCullough
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There's a hell of a lot of hor...
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.
Colleen McCullough
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The Labour Party of today has ...
The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.
Colleen McCullough
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I am writing a sequel to The T...
I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.
Colleen McCullough
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My fictitious characters will ...
My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow
Colleen McCullough
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It's a dead give away of an in...
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice
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