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Colleen McCullough Quotes

Colleen McCullough quotes

Australian Author, Writer June 1, 1937

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Age brought wisdom, but it also brought a genuine gratitude for the happiness of sharing life with someone as much liked as loved. Colleen McCullough
The Greeks say it's a sin against the gods to love something beyond all reason. And do you remember that they say when someone is loved so, the gods become jealous, and strike the object down in the very fullness of its flower? Colleen McCullough
And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget. Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough quote: "I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the..."
I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand. Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough quote: "Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind"
Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind Colleen McCullough
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. Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough quote: "If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they..."
If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you! Colleen McCullough
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to... Colleen McCullough
She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's. Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough quote: "What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of..."
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance? Colleen McCullough
Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into intimates more quickly than ten years of polite teas in parlours. Colleen McCullough
Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life. Colleen McCullough
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it. Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough quote: "the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says..."
..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend Colleen McCullough
Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All... Colleen McCullough

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