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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

Barry Humphries

The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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 was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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 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 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
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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 love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
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
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

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