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"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."
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"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."
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"There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it."
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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."
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"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."
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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."
Fire
"I look back to a happy childhood."
Family
"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family."
Family
"My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county."
Family
"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."
Marriage
"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."
Discovery
"Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive."
Man
"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea."
History
"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria."
Family
"As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption."
Love
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