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Eleanor Catton Biography

Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 24 September 1985) is a Canadian-born New Zealand author. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In January 2015, she generated controversy in New Zealand when she made comments in an interview in India in which she was critical of "neo-liberal, profit-obsessed, very shallow, very money-hungry politicians who do not care about culture."

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I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

Education, Greed, Paid, Teacher, Think, Thinking

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

Beauty, Language, Natural, Sublime, Views

Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.

Astrologys, Different, Earth, Moving, Would Be

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

Desire, Kind, Match, Reason

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

Enquiring, Feels, Forward, Frustrated, Moving

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

Feature, Giving, Human, Human Nature, Receive, Wish

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

Bright, Girl, Haunting, Loner, School

The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.

Proper, Social, View, Views, Way

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

Adverb, Facts, Oppressive, Speech, Thinking

What’s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of my attraction coincides with the accident of hers?

Girl, Heart, Likelihood, Race, Return

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

Adventure, Set, Story, Writing, Years

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

Clever, Enslave, Life, Remember, Set

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

Disposition, Evaluation, Mans, Men, Ought

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

Judges, Judging, Judgment, Man, Men, Self Esteem

I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.

Ideas, Luck, Person, Serious, Tend, Thinking

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

Company, Condition, Enjoyed, Solitude