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From Quotes by Michael Leunig
- When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old…
- At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the…
- Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only…
- Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.
- What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values…
- Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
- What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny... Oh my God - this…
- For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying…
- Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things…
- A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny…
- Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.
- The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit…
- As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can…
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