Quotes of Peter Carey

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I thought that that was a really Australian story. And I wasn't mad at Dickens about that at all. I thought that seemed like us, in all sorts of ways.

- Peter Carey

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“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ I don't think you can define love. ”

- Harry Styles

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ In love, trust is a tonic and suspicion is a poison. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way. ”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Love is like a gold mine, The deeper you dig in your heart, the more love you receive. ”

- Bzam

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot