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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

Barry Humphries

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
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
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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
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
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
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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
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
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

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