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I have just finished writing a full-sized novel; title, Such is Life; scenery, Riverina and northern Vic.; temper, democratic; bias, offensively Australian.

— Joseph Furphy

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Qtd. in Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose (1962), Ch. 9

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