“I wrote. Something. Yes. And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.”
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"A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present"--
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Richard Flanagan
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“I wrote. Something. Yes. And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.”
“A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched...”
“There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.”