Peter Carey is an Australian author best known for his novel "Illywhacker." The book follows the life of a charismatic and unreliable narrator, Herbert Badgery, as he travels across Australia and tells tall tales. Carey is a two-time winner of the Booker Prize and has written numerous other acclaimed works of fiction.
Love is like the measles. We all have to go through it.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to get a good night’s sleep.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it’s exactly like love in three ways: it’s pushy, it has no real sense of humor, and it turns up where you least expect it.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
It is the storyteller’s right to exaggerate.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
If you don’t weaken, that’s what they’ll remember about you.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
Sometimes the best thing about love is its replaceability.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
A man’s past is not simply a dead history…it is a still quivering part of himself.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker
We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours in a day.
Peter Carey – Illywhacker