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"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."
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"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."

"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer."

"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"

"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
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"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."

"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."

"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."

"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it."

"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have."

"It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?"
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