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I am halfway through Hillary Clinton's latest called "Living History"...pretty lighthearted on the scale...unlike David Hick's autobiography...I had to skip a couple of hundred pages in the middle of that one because it was too distressing for me to read. Undoubtedly yours will be the same...I will read the beginning, skip all the awful bit in the middle and read your happy ever after bit at the end.

I am not your dog that you whistle for; I’m not a stray animal you call over, and I am not, I never have been, nor will I ever be, your “baby”!

I can make you feel, and I can scare you for real. -Misty Lee

I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

I decided an Akubra did not a bushy make - Ellen Read - An Ordinary Man .

...I'd felt dread about how average and suburban Brisbane seemed. The normalcy was stifling and that I yearned for bigger things, that I missed New York.

I didn't appreciate the moment as much as I should have while living it, but I can attribute that to my poor emotional state and hindsight.

I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)

I'd shown interest, and showing interest in Bali means that the salesman is most likely going to walk away with your money.

If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away my will to live. It's as if Germans built a Jewish food hall over Buchenwald.

If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd.

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

If you will it, it's not a dream.

If you would know this country, you must know its stories.

I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.

I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.

I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.

I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me!

In a world of differing opinions, mentally unstable people and complete psychopaths, it was the type of simplistic notion that some people wouldn't want to follow or ignorance would just simply not allow them to understand.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

In a seedy cinema on ru du Temple, watching Disney's Peter Pan with my son, I found that although we were all gazing at the same screen in the flickering dark, I was seeing a different film to the rest of the audience. What seemed fantastical and exotic to the Parisian kids looked like home to me. I knew secret coves and hidey-holes like those of the Lost Boys. I'd grown up in a world of rocky islands, boats and obscuring bush. To my mind the only setting that was alien - even whimsical - was the cold, lonely nursery in the Darling family attic. The wild opportunity of Neverland with its freedom from adult surveillance was deeply, warmly familiar. Watching the movie for the umpteenth time and seeing it anew, forsaking story and focusing greedily on the backdrop, I understood what a complete stranger I was in that hemisphere. But acknowledging my strangeness made those years abroad easier to digest and enjoy.

I love long regarded my country as a secret, as a land half-won, its story half-told. It was as if the past was another country, mysterious and unexplained. 'Australian history' either was not taught or was not required for 'higher learning'. Contemporary history was unheard of. Black history was ridiculed. Historians and politicians, more concerned with imperial propriety than truth, covered up and distorted.

I mean it. Aside from the old coastal cities, which in Australia are still very young themselves, what you have is a vast stretch of wilderness, wholly natural, with all the horror that nature brings to the table when she dines." "You make it sound like we'll barely survive," Clare said. "Oh, I'm sure we will, at least the journey to Port Darwin. From there we won't have to struggle with anything more lethal than a train carriage, I hope. My point is that this is a young country in an old land. And those who don't walk with respect in the wilderness do have a tendency to get eaten.

In Japan, educational focus is often on scholastic ability and test scores, whereas Australian education uses a range of skills to develop the individual, e.g., discussion abilities, participation and developing independence, for example, life skills

Interstellar travel is like a flight to Australia on acid.

I think the biggest impacts on marketing for Australia in the future will be the ability to understand and meet the needs of Asian consumers

I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.

In this century, the Australian Century, Australia will also have an opportunity to achieve extraordinary feats. Just as the United States dominates world affairs with less than five per cent of the global population, Australia too can make a lasting impression with its own limited demographics. The rise of the global middle class is Australia’s pathway to exceptionalism.

Invisible magpies warbled in the plane trees. Softly, gently, never running out of melodic ideas, they perched among the leaves and spun out their endless tales.

I remember that there was a time when I believed that a government and its departments were there to meet the needs, to understand the needs, and to act on the needs of the people for whom they have taken responsibility. It took me some time to question why it was in relation to [Aboriginal] people that they did not meet the needs, or take the steps, that responsible government demands. Why do they not provide the simple basics in the ways that work for us? Why not? There has never been an honest answer to this.

It is a different world today from what it was then. It will be a different world tomorrow from what it is today.

Its easy to wake up a person who is sleeping but its hard to wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.

It is very good, Wisehammer, it's very well written, but it's too-too-political. It will be considered provocative." "You don't want me to say it." "Not tonight. We have many people against us." "I could tone it down. I could omit 'We left our country for our country's good.'" "That's the best line.

It's a fucking jail! A jail for people who've done nothing wrong except come here by boat. It's not even fucking illegal - did you know that?

It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up.

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment.

It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck.

It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.

It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked.

It was a start, and a start is all anyone needs to put an end to something.

It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun.

It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.