Peter Goldsworthy Quotes

#1. The basic philosophy of life seemed to be: What do I care? It's none of my business. [The philosophy of Naples, Italy.]

Franco Di Mare

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

Peter Goldsworthy

#3. Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Peter Goldsworthy

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

Peter Goldsworthy

#6. As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

Tiger Woods

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

Peter Goldsworthy

#8. When she spoke at last, I knew at once that she was rather drunk. "Seen something you fancy, Nancy? ... " she said.
I swallowed, unsure of what reply to make to her. She walked closer, then stopped a few paces from me, and continued to fix me with the same even, arrogant gaze.

Sarah Waters

#9. 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

#10. Ah, my poor child, how far gone you are in your blindness! Why did you have me summoned?"
"I had hopes, I had hopes."
"Hopes? Hopes of what?"
"I do not know. The things we hope for are always the things we do not know.

Henri Barbusse

#11. Only the second-rate never make mistakes

Peter Goldsworthy

#12. 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.

Peter Goldsworthy

#13. That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

Albert Camus

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

Peter Goldsworthy

#15. but it does not want

Shashi Tharoor

#16. Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.

Alan Cohen

#17. Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

Mads Mikkelsen