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"Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else."

— Tim Winton Cloudstreet (1991)

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More quotes by Tim Winton

"It's the saddest sight to see, Scully, a man lettin his own life slip through his hands."

The Riders (1994)

"It does you good to be tenants. It reminds you of your own true position in the world."

Cloudstreet (1991)

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

The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

You spend your whole life trying to work out where you fit.

That Eye, the Sky (1986)

I should have known earlier to always live like that.

In the Winter Dark (1988)

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