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Hal Porter has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which…
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The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle…
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I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against…
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I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured…
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While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger…
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Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted…
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Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my…
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The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central…
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The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle…
— Hal Porter
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Ah Come on! I can't believe, The drama that I'm in, The flood is getting closer, I don't think they know that…
— Escape The Fate
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I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact,…
— Ron Wood
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Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning…
— Raphael
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Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.
— Dilys Laing
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A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel,…
— Michel Houellebecq
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The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting…
— Richard Allen
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It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though,…
— Kevin Nealon
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