Peter Goldsworthy Quotes

#1. At home, my mother dabbed at her brow with a wet flannel she kept in the fridge for that purpose.

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#2. I smiled, but internally, unseen, using no visible facial muscles.

Peter Goldsworthy

#3. We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

Peter Goldsworthy

#4. Even the stars we see
are only a kind of memory,
already dead for years.

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#5. My affection for you does not depend on those small things.'
Affection? To hear him admit it, to actually utter words of love, however understated, astonished me.

Peter Goldsworthy

#6. Only the second-rate never make mistakes

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#7. A constant flickering confetti of butterflies showered the town of Darwin. Designer insects, I think of them now: there was something enormously wasteful, extravagant even, about the profusion of patterns and shapes and brilliant colours.

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#8. I never hear you practice."
He smiled: "Only those who are dirty need to wash.

Peter Goldsworthy