"Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation."

-- Jan Morris

#Country Quotes #Australia Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.”
“I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, â€˜This is warâ€™-that the people who were in the war would believe that I had truthfully captured what they had gone through I worked in the framework that war is horrible. I want to carry on what I have tried to do in these pictures. War is a concentrated unit in the world and these things are clearly and cleanly seen. Things like race prejudice, poverty, hatred and bigotry are sprawling things in civilian life, and not so easy to define as war.”
“You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”
“War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.”

Source : Ian Rankin (2006). “Blood Hunt”
“Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.”
“The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.”
“Once you take care of people, people respect you.”
“If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.”

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