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..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend
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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It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
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... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
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I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
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Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.
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Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
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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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What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
Colleen McCullough
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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Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
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There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.
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Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention
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Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
Colleen McCullough
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.
Colleen McCullough
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
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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.
Colleen McCullough
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.
Colleen McCullough
If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
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There was some justice in his pain
Colleen McCullough
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
Colleen McCullough
