"Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of……" — Michael Leunig
"Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It’s as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives..."
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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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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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Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage…
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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