"For 13 years, I struggled with education and……" — Michael Leunig
"For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul."
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108 Quotes by Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
- There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed."…
- When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
- Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and…
- Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is…
- There is some suffering that awaits us all.
- The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power…
- God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And…
- At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature.…
- For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something…
- I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
- 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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