"The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect."

-- Hal Porter

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“I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.”
“Love without conversation is impossible.”
“Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.”
“He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.”
“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”
“If you're missing joy and peace, you're not trusting God.”
“There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.”
“Miss you,â€ he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.”

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