Tim Winton Quotes - Page 2

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• Every great moment of social change was once a confirmed impossibility. People's determination in the face of overwhelming odds has, time and again, triumphed over what seems impossible. This is what you tell yourself.

  Tim Winton

  Determination, Odds, People

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

  Tim Winton

  Hunting, Blood, Sea

  Tim Winton (2017). “The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes From an Australian Life”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury them, only to have them rise to meet you in sleep. Mostly the scenes are familiar, but sometimes everything is strange, the people unknown.

  Tim Winton

  Dream, Art, Sleep

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.

  Tim Winton

  Space, Worry, Goes On

  Tim Winton (2013). “Cloudstreet: A Novel”, p.2, Macmillan

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• It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

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  Thinking, Breathing

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to assume I was one, which is rich, I know. I didn't meet a writer until I was nearly an adult, so I had no idea what I'd bet the farm on.

  Tim Winton

  Ideas, Adults, Assuming

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Truly brave people accept that they may not see victory in their own lifetime. You just keep at it for the sake of those who come after you. You might not win but you stand a better chance by doing something.

  Tim Winton

  Winning, People, Brave

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.

  Tim Winton

  Reflection, Men, Judging

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• Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

  Tim Winton

  Humanity, Special, Humour

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

  Tim Winton

  Lasts, Rooms, Awake

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• When I was a girl I had this strong feeling that I didn't belong anywhere,... It was in my head, what I thought and dreamt, what I believed..., that's where I belonged, that was my country.

  Tim Winton

  Girl, Country, Strong

  Tim Winton (2014). “Cloudstreet: Picador Classic”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

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  Home, Ears, Quiet

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea has become. We're suspended in consequences, you might say.

  Tim Winton

  Sea, Might, Surf

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours it took my first child to be born than I did in all those years of study.

  Tim Winton

  Children, School, Years

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

  Tim Winton

  Pay, Horror, Existential

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• The notion that love is abroad in the world has shaped my life.

  Tim Winton

  Love Is, World, Notion

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of the world. I can't imagine what people must think as they read my books in Poland. Or in Hebrew and Greek. People are reading all the stories which are about bits of Western Australia.

  Tim Winton

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Yet however comforting and peaceful beach-combing is, it ends up like the sea, as disturbing as it is reassuring. In dark moments I believe that walking on a beach at low tide is to be looking for death, or at least anticipating it. You will only find the dead, the spilled and the cast-off. Things torn free of their life or their place.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, Believe

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• We are all part of that global traffic and I think that the effort to make yourself understood and to be not a problem for anyone or to hide your own particuarly is a mistake. I think people will and do value individuality.

  Tim Winton

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing essays busts my arse because the art is in addressing the subject. I find it really difficult and monstrously time-consuming. In an essay I need to employ my imagination but it's indentured in a way it's not when I'm free to make everything up.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Writing, School

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.

  Tim Winton

  Marine, Growing, May

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Optimism is necessary even if you don't instinctively feel it.

  Tim Winton

  Optimism, Feels, Ifs

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed my way to enlightenment. Eventually you see where you've been. All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling, knowing you might bequeath a full dose of Nothing to those who come after you.

  Tim Winton

  Marine, Redneck, Knowing

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• In Australia surfing was for the oiks. It was always rebellious. And sadly it was for a long time a bit unreflective and macho and anti-intellectual. Unlike other sports it was essentially a youth cult, like rock and roll. But like rock and roll its people grew up.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Australia, Rocks

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.

  Tim Winton

  Doing Nothing, Certain, Loses

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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