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“Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.”
Source : Donald Horne (1981). “Winner take all?”
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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
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“She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.”
Source : Deanna Raybourn (2013). “A Spear of Summer Grass”, p.48, MIRA
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“If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.”
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“I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.”
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“Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.”
Source : Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers
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“If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!”
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“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
Source : Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049”, p.179, Ballantine Books
