Top 100 Richard Flanagan Quotes (2024 Update)
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Richard Flanagan Quote: “Evans understood that if Nakamura chose, it would be indiscriminately and their number would include the sickest – and perhaps most likely the sickest, because they were of least use to Nakamura – and that all of them would die. If, on the other hand, he, Dorrigo, chose, he could pick the fittest, the ones he thought had the best chance of living. And most would die anyway. That was his choice: to refuse to help the agent of death, or to be his servant.”

101. “Evans understood that if Nakamura chose, it would be indiscriminately and their number would include the sickest – and perhaps most likely the sickest, because they were of least use to Nakamura – and that all of them would die. If, on the other hand, he, Dorrigo, chose, he could pick the fittest, the ones he thought had the best chance of living. And most would die anyway. That was his choice: to refuse to help the agent of death, or to be his servant.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “I had begun with the comforting conclusion that books are the tongue of divine wisdom, and had ended only with the thin hunch that all books are grand follies, destined forever to be misunderstood.”

102. “I had begun with the comforting conclusion that books are the tongue of divine wisdom, and had ended only with the thin hunch that all books are grand follies, destined forever to be misunderstood.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that’s very hard to imagine, far less understand.”

103. “The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that’s very hard to imagine, far less understand.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “Dorrigo glimpsed a complex mud of intimacies normally invisible to the world – the shared sleep, scents, sounds, the habits endearing and frustrating, the pleasures and sadnesses, small and large – the plain mortar that finally renders two as one. Her hair was pulled back.”

104. “Dorrigo glimpsed a complex mud of intimacies normally invisible to the world – the shared sleep, scents, sounds, the habits endearing and frustrating, the pleasures and sadnesses, small and large – the plain mortar that finally renders two as one. Her hair was pulled back.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “All men were liars and he was no doubt no different – only one tongue and more tales than the dog pound.”

105. “All men were liars and he was no doubt no different – only one tongue and more tales than the dog pound.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “He looked at his foreword, written, as ever, in his customary green ink, with the simple, if guilty, hope that in the abyss that lay between his dream and his failure there might be something worth reading in which the truth could be felt.”

106. “He looked at his foreword, written, as ever, in his customary green ink, with the simple, if guilty, hope that in the abyss that lay between his dream and his failure there might be something worth reading in which the truth could be felt.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “Instagram, blessed Novocaine of the soul! Foodholidayssmilinggroupsshopping.”

107. “Instagram, blessed Novocaine of the soul! Foodholidayssmilinggroupsshopping.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “It surprised Anna and it upset Anna how small her life was each time she tried to tell it, to shape it in order to escape it, how it always came out too quickly as a few dispiriting sentences so easily dismissed.”

108. “It surprised Anna and it upset Anna how small her life was each time she tried to tell it, to shape it in order to escape it, how it always came out too quickly as a few dispiriting sentences so easily dismissed.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “As a meteorite strike long ago explains the large lake now, so Amy’s absence shaped everything, even when – and sometimes most particularly when – he wasn’t thinking of her.”

109. “As a meteorite strike long ago explains the large lake now, so Amy’s absence shaped everything, even when – and sometimes most particularly when – he wasn’t thinking of her.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “A coat hanger of a body trying to remember the coat that years before had fallen off.”

110. “A coat hanger of a body trying to remember the coat that years before had fallen off.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “All life is only allegory and the real story is not here...”

111. “All life is only allegory and the real story is not here...”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “Because not to fear was to imagine a world beyond experience. And that was too much for anybody.”

112. “Because not to fear was to imagine a world beyond experience. And that was too much for anybody.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “I mean, is translating experience into words an achievement at all? Or is it just the cause of all our unhappiness? Is it our tragedy and our ongoing conceit? The world gets carried away with words, phrases, and elaborate paragraphs. One word leads to another and soon enough you have affairs, wars, genocide and the Anthropocene.”

113. “I mean, is translating experience into words an achievement at all? Or is it just the cause of all our unhappiness? Is it our tragedy and our ongoing conceit? The world gets carried away with words, phrases, and elaborate paragraphs. One word leads to another and soon enough you have affairs, wars, genocide and the Anthropocene.”

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Richard Flanagan Quote: “She sometimes wondered, Francie continued, if parents’ mistake was to make too much of their importance to their children, and their children repeat the same mistake.”

114. “She sometimes wondered, Francie continued, if parents’ mistake was to make too much of their importance to their children, and their children repeat the same mistake.”

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