Quotes by David Malouf

About David Malouf:

David George Joseph Malouf is an Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was still standing on the corner of Queen and Albert Streets waiting for someone that he knew would never appear. He had long un...

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There is more to darkness than nightfall.

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So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are not yet fully assured of our place in the world and our hold on its swarming phenomena; so long as there is more to be discovered and made, more to grasp...

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Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; i...

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... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.

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Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself. It will look at first like disaster, but is really...

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So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.

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What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

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Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown regio...

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Words his soul danced to.

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Author Bio

  • NameDavid Malouf
  • DescriptionAustralian writer
  • BornMarch 20, 1934
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Poet; Librettist
  • AwardsCommonwealth Writers' Prize; ; Miles Franklin Literary Award; Neustadt International Prize For Literature