Elliot Perlman quotes

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. (Elliot Perlman)
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance. View quote
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What is it about men that make women so lonely? View quote
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Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused. View quote
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Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust. View quote
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As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now. View quote
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I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign. View quote
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After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in. View quote
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Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible. View quote
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You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right. View quote
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I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones. (Elliot Perlman)