Christos Tsiolkas Quotes

#1. He was going to take in, possess the whole of the world. Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi? Fuck off. He wanted more.

Christos Tsiolkas

#2. The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

Christos Tsiolkas

#3. The standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have.

Paul Graham

#4. When is it enough?" he asked. "We're told to let go of the ones that don't want help. How long do we try before we step back and let them do what they want? Before it's hurting everyone else around you to keep that person around?

C.L.Stone

#5. Life is more important than architecture.

Oscar Niemeyer

#6. 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.

Christos Tsiolkas

#7. 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.

Christos Tsiolkas

#8. Being working class wasn't about words, it could only be expressed through the body.

Christos Tsiolkas

#9. To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

David Weinberger

#10. 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.

Christos Tsiolkas

#11. Discomfort is sometimes what is most precious to me about great art.

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#12. El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. His hard cock in one hand. The roof of the caravan is low and he has to crouch. I film his face, move

Christos Tsiolkas

#14. There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love.

Carlos Salinas

#15. Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

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#16. 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.

Christos Tsiolkas

#17. 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?

Christos Tsiolkas

#18. No one stays for you.
Everybody stays depending on their need for you.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi

#19. Where others saw America in lovely columns, marvels of engineering, and refined democrats, Dad saw only masks concealing the heralds of woe.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#20. She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life.

Christos Tsiolkas

#21. 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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#22. In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

Vince Gilligan

#23. But the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy.

Alexandra Fuller

#24. I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.

Sheryl Crow

#25. 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.

Christos Tsiolkas

#26. A spirit is like a nucleus of an atom - invisible but infinite.

Debasish Mridha

#27. It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.

Christos Tsiolkas

#28. Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.

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#29. her smile was always to me like the shining out of an angel's face from behind a mask where brave struggles with heavy sorrows had left deep imprints of mortality.

Megan Marshall

#30. I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.

Zack Snyder

#31. In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.

Christos Tsiolkas

#32. 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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#33. 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.

Christos Tsiolkas

#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. Everything is fair in love and art.

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