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The dreams now were simply of staying alive.
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We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.
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I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.
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The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
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At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.
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Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.
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The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.
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Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.
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My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.
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When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.
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Name three types of olives. Olives! I wouldn't know one type! Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.
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Blame it on Peer Pressure.
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I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.
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This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet, she complained. You're both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.
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Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.
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The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.
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....we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.
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What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.
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Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.
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Too much thinking, not enough feeling.
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A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong.
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