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One Quotes by Hal Porter
- While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I…
- The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves,…
- This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year…
- I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a…
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