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Peter Carey Quotes: My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
         

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.


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I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.



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