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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

Barry Humphries

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 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
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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
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
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
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’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
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

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