"The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there."

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Source : Henry Lawson (1984). “A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922”

Henry Lawson

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“Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.”

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“I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.”
“I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.”
“Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.”
“I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.”
“I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.”
“I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.”
“I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.”

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