"In the modern world, it may be that……" — Michael Leunig
"In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all."
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108 Quotes by Michael Leunig
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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