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“In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.”

Quote by Robert Dessaix

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Robert Dessaix, born on February 17, 1944, is an acclaimed Australian novelist known for his delicate emotions and profound reflections in his works. His novels primarily explore themes of personal identity, cultural identity, and moral ethics. more

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“The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.”

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“You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.”

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“I think that a lot of people do have a physical Ithaca, but I don't think that I do and I think that a lot of people do not. This depends on your values and the circumstances of your life. My Ithaca is in the Mental realm and this doesn't mean that you don't have to go back to it.”

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“There is a mental space that we consciously makes our way back to, and give honour to what has formed us in this mental homeland which we carry with us always. It is important not to try to annihilate it but to take your courage in your hands and go back, and then I think you can more easily make a new beginning. A lot of us would like to know how to do this.”

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“It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.”

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“It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.”

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“I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.”

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“I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox. You see it in Western Europe more and more. Eastern Europe is still coming out of the Soviet uniform cultural era, but this kind of separation and nationalism is very obvious now in Western Europe.”

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“I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.”

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“Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will be. During a war it is different, but even then, it is perfectly possible to write novels during a major war, which are about those thing which endure. It is what makes us human and the thing which is going to keep going.”

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