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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

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
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 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 truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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’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
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible

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