Norman Lindsay quotes
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“The best love affairs are those we never had.”
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“'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'”
-- Norman LindsaySource : Norman Lindsay (2006). “The Magic Pudding”, p.52, Courier Corporation
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“Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.”
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“Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.”
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“A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.”
-- Norman Lindsay
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Source : Barbara Pym (2013). “A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters”, p.108, Pan Macmillan
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Source : Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics
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“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
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Source : "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.
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