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Why was it that he didn't know a thing about the underlying nature of people, the shadows and shifts, the hungers and hopes that caused them to do the things they did?

— 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)

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

Cloudstreet (1991)

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

That Eye, the Sky (1986)

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