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Similar categories in Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle, #1-3) book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

Similar categories in Paul Beatty's The Sellout book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

Similar categories in Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One (The Power of One, #1) book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

Similar categories in Connie Willis's Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

"It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"No," she said. "No. It's only a bad time. A terrible time, but not everyone will die. And there will be wonderful times after this. The Renaissance and class reforms and music. Wonderful times. There…"

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

Similar categories in Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1) book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Honeybee book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Limberlost book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

Similar categories in Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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"Don't fuckin' swear."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Most things people say don't need to be said."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Love Stories book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

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Similar categories in Diana Reid's Seeing Other People book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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Similar categories in Tara June Winch's The Yield book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2) book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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Similar categories in C.E. McGill's Our Hideous Progeny book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

"We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity."

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to…"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

Similar categories in Jess Hill's See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

Similar categories in Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone book and Paul Cleary's Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

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"So many words, but none of them were enough. None of them brought those girls home."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"So we kept our mouthes closed, like we squeezed our eyes shut. Our family of four blind mice."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"Cordy kept strange private things curled up in her carelessness that were too tight for the rest of us to unravel."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"We thought we'd seen the worst when those girls disappeared, but seeing, and not seeing, is a funny old thing. Even now, I don't know which is crueller in the end."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

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