"One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers."

-- Wilfrid

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“We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership.”
“The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.”
“Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.”
“Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.”
“Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2007). “My Brilliant Career”, p.297, Broadview Press
“Few men know all the ill they do.”
“Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.”
“I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side.”

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