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“Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you…

— Tim Winton

“The two big cities of Australia are tonally as distinct from each other as Boston is from L.A. or Lyon from Marseilles.”

— Helen Garner

“Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and…

— Gertrude Stein

Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem to have…

— Michael Bierut

“Life in Australia is more equal and less competitive than in America; but there are dozens of similarities...migrations to a new land, the mystique…

— Donald Horne

“Australia was not Britain, and its law would not be just British.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Yes, I once was the toast of two continents! (...Greenland & Australia).”

— Dorothy Parker

“Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is,…

— Dave Franklin

“America is one big maill with a country attached to it.”

— Ben Fountain

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old…

— Douglas Adams

No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and…

— Phoebe Tonkin

“Austere government buildings lined the edges, standing in the square an individual felt like a speck of dust.”

— Sylvia Vetta