Peter Philip Carey
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Born: 7 May 1943, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Biography from Wikipedia
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- His hair was a curling mess and he showed the proper desregard for sartorial elegance which Harry had always seen as a sign of reliability in a person. Neat men always struck him as desperate and ambitious. permalink
Peter Carey - Bliss (1982) - I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead. permalink
Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America (2009) - I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares will be occupied by an uneducated class who will not be able to quote a line of Shakespeare. permalink
Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America (2009) - If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too. permalink
Peter Carey - If you know the country ... then you will be a wild colonial boy forever. permalink
Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) - People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else. permalink
Peter Carey - Swimming always cleans your soul. permalink
Peter Carey - His Illegal Self (2007) - To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely. permalink
Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda (1988) - Would you rather have the lords and nobles back? What is Democracy for? Not so we can rob each other. Or cheat.' I said cheat and felt the teeth in it, the cleat, the cut, the eat. permalink
Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America (2009) - You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel. permalink
Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
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