Well, good luck to you, kid I'm going to write the Great Australian Novel.
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St. Mary's and Wabash are in one important way very different. Wabash is a college for men Saint Mary's, of course, a college for women. But both share a respect for students, a commitment to education of the whole person, and a calling of all students to greatness.Patrick White
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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I dunno,' Arthur said. 'I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I've learnt.'
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