They prevented us from getting that first goal. Had we have gotten that maybe we would have got a little confidence and maybe come back.
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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.Patrick White
I have tried to celebrate the park, which means so much to so many of us, in The Eye of the Storm and in some of the shorter novels of The Cockatoos.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Well, good luck to you, kid I'm going to write the Great Australian Novel.
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
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Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.
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