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I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

Barry Humphries

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
I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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Body Bother Hair Men Some Women
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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
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
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
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
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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 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
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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

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