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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.

Tim Winton

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Tim Winton
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 4
Novelist
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Perth
Australia
Timothy John Winton
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Life is wild by definition. And organic existence is violent. Though I find this hard to accept. And I know it goes against the cultural grain of therapeutic smoothing so dominant in what we like to call 'cultural discourse'.
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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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The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.
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It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.
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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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When I was a girl I had this strong feeling that I didn't belong anywhere,... It was in my head, what I thought and dreamt, what I believed..., that's where I belonged, that was my country.
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I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone who's not a surfer. The sensation is the thing. And it's tough to describe without resorting to clichés or mystical nonsense.
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Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.
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I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.
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It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of the world. I can't imagine what people must think as they read my books in Poland. Or in Hebrew and Greek. People are reading all the stories which are about bits of Western Australia.
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It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.
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And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.
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When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're going to buy when you've got lots of money. You know, you're just there. You're in the moment. And I think in a contemporary world, that's a rare privilege.
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I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.
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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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The end of the world begins in the sea we love.
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And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.
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Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.
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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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