Top 22 Christos Tsiolkas Quotes
#1. Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.
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#2. She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life.
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#3. I wonder if it is the same for women, whether women always feel this pain when they are fucked? Or is it only in sodomy that pain and pleasure are so linked, so inextricable?
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#4. But just because no-one sang the story, no-one wrote the book, no-one filmed it, that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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#5. It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.
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#6. In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.
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#7. He imagined forgiveness was like flying, that it made you soar. He imagined that it looked like an eagle, a silver bolt in the sky, that it was pure light.
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#8. I want two scars, one on each of my shoulder blades."
He shrugged in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"Two scars," I repeated, "for where my wings used to be, where my wings were torn away from me.
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#9. I like being a faggot, mate, I like it a lot and I think being free in our middle age is what we deserve for straights making our childhood and our teenage years so cuntish.
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#10. I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.
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#12. Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.
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#13. The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.
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#14. Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there's a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.
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#15. I couldn't admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck 'em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.
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#16. Being working class wasn't about words, it could only be expressed through the body.
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#17. He was going to take in, possess the whole of the world. Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi? Fuck off. He wanted more.
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#18. Discomfort is sometimes what is most precious to me about great art.
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#19. His hard cock in one hand. The roof of the caravan is low and he has to crouch. I film his face, move
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#20. Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.
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#21. In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.
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#22. Hugo pulled away from Rosie's teat. 'No one is allowed to touch my body without my permission.' His voice was shrill and confident. Hector wondered where he learnt those words. From Rosie? At child care? Were they community announcements on the frigging television?
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