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" A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times. "
Happy
Life
Most
" A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years. "
Childhood
Beautiful
Funny
" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "
Creativity
Wisdom
Experience
" All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!' "
People
Good
Think
" All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature. "
Human Nature
Military
Nature
" All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising. "
Creative
Sometimes
World
" A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason. "
Reason
Want
Afford
" An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be. "
Education
Stupid
Life
" Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker. "
Cartoon
Better
Drawing
" Anzac Day, it seems, must now be done with bluster, hoopla and media hypnotism. "
Day
Seems
Now
" Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures. "
Cultures
Apparently
Certain
" Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. "
Art
Your
World
" Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' "
Art
Freedom
Love
" Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. "
Religion
Spiritual
Life
" As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are usually not in need of advocacy, moral support or sympathetic understanding; they have already organised sufficient publicity for themselves and prosecute their points of view with great efficiency. "
View
Great
I Am
" As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me. "
Great
Fly
Child
" As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing. "
Better
Child
Life
" A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them. "
Society
Look
Children
" A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. "
Failure
Night
Light
" As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is not lost; what we find on the ground can be very valuable and precisely what we need. "
Lost
Grow
Lift
" At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives. "
Place
Simple
Successful
" At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do. "
Better
Know
I Am
" At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their clothes were mysterious and alluring - added to which, they could not speak a word of English. More than anything, I wanted to connect with them and embark on a vast journey of exploration. "
Love
Speak
Two
" Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West. "
Life
Cute
Culture
" A world view is probably an expression of self. "
View
Expression
World
" Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity. "
Culture
Sense
Political
" Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. "
Moral
Silence
Man
" Darkness is full of possibility. "
Possibility
Darkness
Full
" Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny. "
Heart
Democracy
Tyranny
" Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it. "
Loss
Passion
Death
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