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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
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Colleen Margaretta McCullough
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Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
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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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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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How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
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I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.
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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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In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive 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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If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
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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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There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.
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Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
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