"I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots."

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Source : Peter Carey (2011). “True History of the Kelly Gang”, p.80, Faber & Faber

Peter Carey

#Home Quotes #Boots Quotes #Needs Quotes

“If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.”
“And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."”

Source : Desert (1908) "God Knows"
“It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.”
“In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.”
“For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!”
“Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.”
“A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.”
“Money is a great slave but a horrible master.”

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