"Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less."

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Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.66, ETT Imprint

Miles Franklin

#Cheer Quotes #Men Quotes #Grandpa Quotes

“Violence existed before our music was even suggested.”

Source : Song: Parental Discretion, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998
“When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.”

Source : 'Absolute and Abitofhell' (1913)
“There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.”
“Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.”
“Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.”
“There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.”
“Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talentâ€¦ this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.”
“Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark; Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas, Cut off from my family I leave my native land. Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison, With heated heart arouse all women's spirits. Alas, this delicate kerchief here Is half stained with blood, and half with tears.”

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