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"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population."
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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."
"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."
"Be an artist in everything you do."
"A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence."
"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."
"What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with excitement, and, shutting the book even with a kind of reverence as if it were something very precious, a stand-by to return to as long as one lives, one puts it back on the shelf."
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"If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have."
"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
"So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring."
"One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off."
"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
"I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows."
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