"A good memory is surely a compost heap……" — Michael Leunig
"A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out."
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Michael Leunig
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108 Quotes by Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig has 108 quotes on this site.
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed."…
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and…
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is…
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.
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The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power…
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And…
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature.…
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something…
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting…
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience,…
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this…
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the…
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
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Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such…
— Unknown Author
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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be…
— Larry Niven
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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one…
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