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1879–1969 Australia
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, art critic, novelist, cartoonist and amateur boxer. One of the most prolific and popular Australian artists of his generation, Lindsay attracted both acclaim and controversy for his works, many of which infused the Australian landscape with erotic pagan elements and were deemed by his critics to be ungodly and degenerate.
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If anyone assumes that going one's own way is the easy way, they are very much in error. There's no harder way to go.
The best love affairs are those we never had.
Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.
Let your conduct be noble, and never sing the National Anthem to people wearing bell-toppers.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
In the art of biography, the idolator is just as objectionable as the debunker.
Words are cheap currency, but coin of the realm has the sincerity on it.
The peculiar rigidity of the English mind is seen at its noblest in the Times literary supplement.
I am fanatic enough to believe that my thought is something the world needs.
"Thank you," said the Mayor, peevishly; " but, on the whole, I prefer to be restored with peeled bananas."
The Magic Pudding (1918)
"Whiskers in the Puddin' is worse than puddin' in the whiskers," shouted the Puddin', standing up in his basin.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
But at this season puddin' thieves generally go south-east, owing to the price of onions.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
There is something extremely disgusting in having one's work pawed by policemen.
Don't you know that nothin' gives a man greater remorse than havin' his face punched, his toes trod on, and eggs rubbed in his hair?
The Magic Pudding (1918)
The efforts of all common humanity are directed to one end — to make existence less difficult. To this end those rules of conduct that pass for morality also tend.
I never indulge sentiment over broken friendships. We have extracted all we need from a friend, and so get rid of him on the same terms as he gets rid of us.
They were a bloodthirsty lot, those sentimentalists who wept for the sad lot of the working classes.
Bill, of course, treated this conduct with silent contempt. It was his rule through life, he said, never to fight people with beaks.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'
Livingstone Hopkins had an infirmity common to most professional humorists; in himself, he was quite humourless.
Well, if this ain't enough to dumbfound a codfish.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
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