Murray Bail Quotes

#1. Eucalyptus. Murray Bail. Someone told me that this was a great novel so I bought it, but then I discovered that it was great Australian novel so I put it away. I find it difficult to get to grips with Australian novels. Difficult, but not impossible.

Susan Hill

#2. Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#3. My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

Chubby Checker

#4. But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.

Bernard Cornwell

#5. Your house, huh?"
"I've seen yours, I think it's time I show you mine."
"Ya know, when people say that, they're not usually talking about houses."
He chuckled. "Yeah, but we've already played that game. We can play it again later, if you like.

Sable Grace

#6. Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

George William Curtis

#7. I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

Jim Crace

#8. Who come out limp often have the most trouble. But the ones who come out all pissed off and full of noise,
they're the fighters. They're the ones who thrive.

Randy Pausch

#9. Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

Laozi

#10. This is a book. Only make-believe. Remember?

Susan Wise Bauer

#11. I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

Charles Bukowski