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Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
Colleen McCullough
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Colleen McCullough
Age: 77 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 1
Died: 2015
Died: January 29
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Wellington
New South Wales
Australia
Colleen Margaretta McCullough
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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.
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That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
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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.
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Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
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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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It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice
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