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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

Barry Humphries

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Destiny Satire School Someone World
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Bad Chic Little People Unhygienic
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Army Children Parent
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Mother Night Party
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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First Lasts Secret
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Athletic Contemporaries Coronary Golf Occlusion
I’m an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.
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Desire Husbands Women
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don’t feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It’s worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.
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Comedian People Thinking
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
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Art Past Point Seductive Song
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Beautiful Men Secretary Sex Thing
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

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