Quotes by Tim Winton

Tim Winton

A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don’t make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.

Growing

Marine

May

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.

Art

Night

Thinking

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

Block

Light

Wall

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.

Judging

Men

Reflection

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.

Goes On

Space

Worry

Australia was once a leader in taking global warming seriously. The former PM [Kevin Rudd] called it ‘greatest moral challenge of our time’. But in the past couple of years the national consensus has been eroded and Australians are being encouraged by the polluters and their mates in Parliament to forget it was ever mentioned. It’s heartbreaking.

Australia

Couple

Past

Being afreaid proves you’re alive and awake.

Alive

Awake

Prove

Different tenses and perspectives offer you different things. It helps to distinguish the world that they are in.

Different

Perspective

World

Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.

Certain

Doing Nothing

Loses

Every great moment of social change was once a confirmed impossibility. People’s determination in the face of overwhelming odds has, time and again, triumphed over what seems impossible. This is what you tell yourself.

Determination

Odds

People

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Alive

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Assuming

Australia

Awake

Beach

Believe

Block

Blood

Book

Brave

Breathing

Capacity

Certain

Challenges

Children

Compassion

Country

Couple

Dark

Decision

Definitions

Determination

Determine

Different

Distance

Doe

Doing Nothing

Dream

Ears

Emotional

End Of The World

Exercise

Existential

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Fiction

Flirting

Fool

Girl

Giving

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Golf

Green

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Halfway There

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Quotes by Tim Winton

Tim Winton

A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don’t make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

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.

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.

Being afreaid proves you’re alive and awake.

Different tenses and perspectives offer you different things. It helps to distinguish the world that they are in.

Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.

Every great moment of social change was once a confirmed impossibility. People’s determination in the face of overwhelming odds has, time and again, triumphed over what seems impossible. This is what you tell yourself.

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