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I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.

Barry Humphries

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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Country Funny Humor
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 was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
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Fun Needs Together
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Humor Laughing Memorable
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
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Friendship Funny Mom
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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 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
If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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Century Joke Laughing Missing

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.

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I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.

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