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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
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
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
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
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
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
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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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