"Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage."

-- Robin Boyd

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“A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.”
“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”
“You have to be ill if you want to get better.”
“To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.”
“I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.”
“I'm a message maker. I create products and ideas that help people connect one heart at a time.”
“Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.”

Source : "The Writings of Erik Satie".

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