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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 fear a fear…
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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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Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or…
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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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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To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few…
— Nicholas von Hoffman
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I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
— Mike White
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to…
— Truman Capote
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...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the…
— David Nicholls
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I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or…
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