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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

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
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
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
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 love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love 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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
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
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
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
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

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

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