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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.


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I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.



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It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.



I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.



The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.



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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.



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He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.



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I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.





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