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Quotes from The Shepherd's Hut — Tim Winton

born 1960 Australia

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11 quotes

There isn't one thing in the world hot and hard as knowing there's someone waiting, coming, pressing, wanting you.

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And you know someone's special when you never get enough of them.

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Honestly, sometimes you'd rather be a dog. A mutt doesn't torture itself with thinking.

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I knew from hunting food the thing you need most of isn't water or ammo, it's patience.

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I wondered what I woulda done if I'd missed that euro. But that was like wondering what your life'd be like if your dad wasn't a douche.

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Tomorrow'll be a new day. Which is really the same miserable fucking day all over again.

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It's one thing to think someone's stupid. And fair enough if you need them to be. But you can't go banking on it. That's a mug's game.

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I didn't even know why I liked her. She was just there. I was used to her.

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Still you can't keep doing the coulda and the woulda and the shoulda. And if there's one thing I know it's this. Doesn't matter how smart you are, or even how careful or lucky, there's some mistakes you just keep making over and over.

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I knew what people thought. Clacktons, we were rubbish. Town like Monkton, one pub, roadhouse, rail silo and twelve streets, half of them empty, small enough everyone heard something and they all had a fucking opinion.

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"Our stories. We store them where moth and rust destroy. We're precious about them, no? Not because we treasure them at all, but because it's safer to hold them close. Am I reading you right? Do we have that much in common?"

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Attribution

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