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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.

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
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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Body Bother Hair Men Some Women
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 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
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
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
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
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
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
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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

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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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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