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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

Barry Humphries

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
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
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
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 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
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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 love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Humor Laughing Memorable
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless

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