Quotes by Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

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Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that m — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation & reviling, while fine work housing emptiness — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though hi — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
The tourists had money and we needed it; they only asked in return to be lied to and deceived and told that single most — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
To be fair to them, they were only after something that walled them off from the past and from people in general, not so — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us. — Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish