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The end of the world begins in the sea we love.

Tim Winton

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Tim Winton
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 4
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Perth
Australia
Timothy John Winton
Begins
Sea
Ends
Love
World

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I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to assume I was one, which is rich, I know. I didn't meet a writer until I was nearly an adult, so I had no idea what I'd bet the farm on.
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It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.
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For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.
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Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.
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The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
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We live in specific places. We are marked by a place.
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Whatever you believe, you need faith to get through the day.
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It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
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What I'm saying so badly is we're bred now to believe we're in control and should be in control.
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Nothing is as daunting as the threats associated with global warming. That's the biggie. Everyone bangs on about rising sea levels but the real challenge of a warming planet is ocean acidification. An acid ocean spells the end of life on earth.
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In Australia surfing was for the oiks. It was always rebellious. And sadly it was for a long time a bit unreflective and macho and anti-intellectual. Unlike other sports it was essentially a youth cult, like rock and roll. But like rock and roll its people grew up.
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I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours it took my first child to be born than I did in all those years of study.
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I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have
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Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.
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Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.
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