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" 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. "
Michael Leunig
Cartoon
Better
Drawing
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" Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work. "
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" In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne. "
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" The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did. "
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" I had a few ducks as a kid. "
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" Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. "
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" It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive. "
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" 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. "
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" The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours. "
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" On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have. "
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Service
You
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" I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon. "
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" I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life. "
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Technology
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" A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times. "
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Most
" There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. "
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Sunday
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" If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with. "
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Innocent
Nose
Poor
" Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world. "
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World
America
Been
" I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me. "
Michael Leunig
Never
Had
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" Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression. "
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Office
Understand
Child
" 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!' "
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People
Good
Think
" I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers. "
Michael Leunig
Good
School
Teachers
" Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both. "
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Us
Falling
Downfall
" My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union. "
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Worker
Workers
Union
" Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life? "
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Child
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" How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.' "
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Look
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" The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be. "
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Life
Knowledge
Great
" I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine. "
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Spy
Alone
Politics
" Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' "
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" The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also. "
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Down
Consciousness
You
" In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control. "
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Control
Talk
Life
" Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky. "
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Control
Life
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" People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage. "
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