Tim Winton Quotes

• There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, Sea

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.6, Penguin UK

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• Son las cosas sin sentido las que dan sentido a tu vida. La amistad, la compasión, el arte, el amor. Todas ellas sin sentido. Pero son lo que evita que la vida carezca de sentido.

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  Art, Compassion, Giving

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• The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

  Tim Winton

  Nature, Ocean, Unexpected

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• La salud de nuestros mares determina el futuro de la humanidad.

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  Sea, Humanity, Determine

  Fuente: www.sas.org.uk

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• Cuando estás surfeando no estás pensando en dónde has aparcado el coche o qué vas a hacer cuando seas mayor o qué te vas a comprar cuando tengas mucho dinero. Simplemente estás ahí. Estás en el momento. Y creo que en el mundo contemporáneo, eso es un raro privilegio.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Growing Up, Thinking

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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.

  Tim Winton

  Nature, Sea, Relief

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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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  Nature, Sea, Doe

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• No creo que haya nada cósmico o divino o moralmente superior en las ballenas y los delfines o los tiburones o los árboles, pero sí creo que todo lo que vive es sagrado y está integrado de algún modo; y en los días nublados sospecho que estos fenómenos extraordinarios, y los cientos de versiones diminutas y modestas de las que nadie oye hablar, son un océano, una tierra, un Creador, algo que nos sacude por el cuello, exigiendo nuestra atención, nuestro miedo, nuestra vigilancia, nuestro respeto, nuestra ayuda.

  Tim Winton

  Believe, Ocean, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• El surf es sensual. Es un compromiso en tiempo real con las fuerzas de la naturaleza, que resultan ser ecos del pasado (que, al fin y al cabo, es todo lo que una ola es en realidad). Desafiamos brevemente a la gravedad y cabalgamos la energía de tormentas de otros lugares. Nos sentimos intensamente solos mientras lo hacemos y, sin embargo, completamente engullidos por algo más grande que nos impone una sensación de perspectiva y conexión con el mundo natural. Es una experiencia que anhelamos repetir, así que vamos en su busca una y otra vez y pasamos años sentados en el agua esperando a que estas líneas radiantes lleguen a través del horizonte de sucesos.

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  Real, Past, Years

  Fuente: www.sas.org.uk

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

  Tim Winton

  Sea, World, End Of The World

  Fuente: www.sas.org.uk

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• El humor es la recompensa por todo ese horror existencial.

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  Pay, Horror, Existential

  Fuente: www.readings.com.au

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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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  Children, School, Years

  Fuente: www.readings.com.au

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• Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on at you in the hope that there's something beyond you. Some nights I sit here and talk and sob and stare out into the blackness thinking that if I look hard enough I'll see the light behind. But I stay out until the break of day, waiting, hoping, and there's only sunrise again.

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  Art, Night, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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• We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

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  Halfway There, Decision, Challenges

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.

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  Issues, People, Fiction

  Fuente: www.readings.com.au

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• Whatever you believe, you need faith to get through the day.

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  Believe, Needs

  Fuente: www.readings.com.au

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• It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

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  Sports, Australia, Surfing

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• For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted in Australia, with Australian landscapes and colours. My work has always had bits of Western Australia in it. It is always here. The world comes to us.

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  Exercise, Thinking, Australia

  Fuente: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Es aterrador pensar que puedes recordar cosas que no deberías ser capaz de recordar. Es como ese miedo infantil a que el alma se te escape del cuerpo mientras duermes. La oscuridad, esas hojas negras de cristal deslizándose sobre ti, aumentando la presión, empujándote a través del tiempo y el espacio y la historia.

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  Art, Sleep, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise we might as well take up golf.

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  Golf, Sea, Healthy

  Fuente: www.sas.org.uk

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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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  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.compulsivereader.com

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• It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.

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  Arte, Oscuridad, Noche

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

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• I just sit here and tell the story as though I can't help it. There's always something in the day that reminds me, that sets me off all hot and guilty and scared and rambling and wistful, like I am now.

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  Art, Hot, Rambling

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

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• Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

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  Memories, Water, Strongest

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

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  Wisdom, People, Needs

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