"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."

-- William Wordsworth

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“There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.”
“Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.”

Source : Anne Bishop (2000). “Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3”, p.8, Penguin
“Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.”
“The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts policy that is expansive, is embracing, is not narrow, is not parochial. For example, that Australians can do Shakespeare just as well as Englishmen can because we, like every civilised nation, partake of the great canonical works. It's not about Australian nationalism; it's about our identity as a culturally ambitious, culturally sophisticated nation.”
“I get moments where you slide and there's an adrenaline shoot, but the moment you scare yourself is the moment you give up. I think what probably scares me more, is that you're involved in something that is quite surreal and you have to be able to bring yourself back down to earth and that's where when you come home and your kids are just excited to have daddy home and tell you about their day, that's one of the greatest things to bring you back down to earth.”

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“Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.”
“My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.”
“Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.”

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