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The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

Barry Humphries

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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Harbor Nature Pearls
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
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 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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Art Past Thinking
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
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
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
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
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Country Sheep Thinking
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’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
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
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports

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