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“It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.”

Tim Winton
Love , Life , Friendship , Art

“It's one thing to think someone's stupid. And fair enough if you need them to be. But you can't go banking on it. That's a mug's game.”

Tim Winton

Part III, Ch.5 - p.250
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

Game , Thinking , Stupidity

“I knew from hunting food the thing you need most of isn't water or ammo, it's patience.”

Tim Winton

Part III, Ch.5 - p.248
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

Patience , Water , Food

“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.”

Tim Winton

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

Making love

“There isn't one thing in the world hot and hard as knowing there's someone waiting, coming, pressing, wanting you.”

Tim Winton

Part III, Ch.1 - p.199
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

World , Waiting

“Mum said school mighta been different for me if I only give a damn. Maybe it was wasted on me like the teachers said. I didn't have any philosophy in me then, so I didn't know what to listen for. Most of it was pointless crap. Don't reckon I met a single wise person all the years I stayed but like I say, I wasn't paying close attention. And the thing is I miss it a bit. That's something I never thought I'd hear myself say. I didn't know what I was, what I could do. Except the lame things I did do.”

Tim Winton

Part I, Ch.6 - p.43
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

School , Personality , Teachers

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

Tim Winton

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

“The past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.”

Tim Winton book The Turning

Short story, 'Aquifer' - p.53
Short stories, The Turning (2004)

Past

“All the big things hurt, the things you remember. If it doesn't hurt it's not important.”

Tim Winton book The Turning

Short story, 'Abbreviation' - p.26
Short stories, The Turning (2004)

Hurt

“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)