

“No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.”
― In a Sunburned Country
― In a Sunburned Country

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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“Don’t walk in front of me� I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me� I may not lead
Walk beside me� just be my friend”
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Don’t walk behind me� I may not lead
Walk beside me� just be my friend”
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“It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.”
― In a Sunburned Country
― In a Sunburned Country

“The people are immensely likable� cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn't get much better than this.”
― In a Sunburned Country
― In a Sunburned Country

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