Quotes by : Richard Flanagan

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

What was a prisoner of war anyway? Less than a man, just material to be used to make the railway, like....

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread....

The tourists had money and we needed it; they only asked in return to be lied to and deceived and told....

Why at the beginning of things is there always light? Dorrigo Evans' earliest memories were of sun flooding....

Because courage, survival, love—all these things didn’t live in one man. They lived in them all or....

-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the....

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past....

Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation & reviling, while fine work....

In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past....