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Colleen McCullough Quotes

1937–2015 Australia

Colleen McCullough AO (1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) is an internationally acclaimed Australian author. She was born in Wellington in central west New South Wales.

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The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers (1992)

There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth.

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. … Or so says the legend.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Colleen McCullough (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.