"The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in……" — Hal Porter
"The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be broken. If broken, the rules of forgiveness leading to re-establishment are equally of air and iron. I learn these rules with rather less ease than my contemporaries because, in the back streets of my being, a duel is developing and increasing in fervour between my instinct which knows why something is so, and my hen-pecking intelligence which wishes to analyse why something is so."
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Hal Porter
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11 Quotes by Hal Porter
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While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four…
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Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion…
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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,…
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This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus…
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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…
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How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.
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