"We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard."

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Source : Douglas Mawson (2010). “The Home of the Blizzard: An Australian Hero's Classic Tale of Antarctic Discovery and Adventure”, p.88, Wakefield Press

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“I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.”
“I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.”
“My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.”
“I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.”
“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
“I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.”
“They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.”
“When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'”

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