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Colleen McCullough

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

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

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

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"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

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"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

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"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."

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"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

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"I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk."

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"I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that."
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"In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination."
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"My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow."
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"It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice."
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"There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be."
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"I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand."
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"In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary."
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"The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did."
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