"Each Australian is a Ulysses."

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Source : Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.255, The Miegunyah Press

Christina Stead

#Australia Quotes #Ulysses Quotes

“Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.”

Source : "In The Presence Of America: A Conversation With Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.
“One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation.”
“Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.”

Source : Caroline Pafford Miller (1944). “Lebanon”
“I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.”
“As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.”
“You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.”
“Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.”
“If we still advise we shall never do.”

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