"This silent cry is of ecstasy for what……" — Hal Porter
"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 nor Next Year am I to have the ability and wisdom to light the lamp on my own. Although one branch of childhood is in this fashion lopped for all time, the rest of it still inhabits the body of a child which occupies itself in childish matters."
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Hal Porter
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11 Quotes by Hal Porter
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I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing…
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death…
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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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The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after…
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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…
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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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The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree.…
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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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