Tim Winton: Making

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“Still you can't keep doing the coulda and the woulda and the shoulda. And if there's one thing I know it's this. Doesn't matter how smart you are, or even how careful or lucky, there's some mistakes you just keep making over and over.”

Part III, Ch.4 - p.238, 239
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

“I suspect that God is what you do, not what or who you believe in. When you do right, Jaxie, when you make good - well, then you are an instrument of God. Then you are joined to the divine, to the life force, to life itself. That's what I believe. That's what I hope for. And it's what I have missed. Think of it this way. When somebody does me a kindness, it enlarges me, adds to my life, you see? And not only mine - it adds to all life.”

Part III, Ch.3 - p.233
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

“It only takes one thing to make you unhappy.”

Source: Novels, That Eye, the Sky (1986), Ch.2 - p.11 [Page numbers per the Penguin Books Australia 1987 paperback edition.]

“It's a survival thing, making yourself a small target.”

Tim Winton book The Turning

Short story, 'Big World' - p.10 [Page numbers per the 2006 UK paperback.]
Short stories, The Turning (2004)