"One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence."

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Source : Bruce Dawe (1971). “Condolences of the season: selected poems”, Addison-Wesley Professional

Bruce Dawe

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“But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.”
“Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.”

Source : The Observer, London, December 28, 1986.
“At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting.”
“Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.”
“Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.”
“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
“That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.”
“Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.”

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