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“ In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss. To hold a gesture, a smell, a smile was to cast it as one fixed thing, a plaster death mask, which as soon as it was touched crumbled in his figures back into dust. ”

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Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

~ Richard Flanagan

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

~ Richard Flanagan

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.

~ Richard Flanagan

What was a prisoner of war anyway? Less than a man, just material to be used to make the railway, like the teak sleepers and steel rails and dog spikes.

~ Richard Flanagan