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'He claims,' said Jenny tactfully, 'That he flew through a radioactive cloud thirty years ago and that it didn't do him any harm - thus it's all right to mine uranium. A fine piece of Australian political reasoning.'

— Helen Garner Honour & Other People's Children (1980)

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'In my profession I have learned that women can bear more pain than men.'

'Didn't this used to be our dining-room table back at Sutherland Street, Frank?' said Kathleen.

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Our minds are not hopeful, thought Janet; but our nerves are made of optimistic stuff.

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'What's funny?' said Pin, shifting uncomfortably in the hospital bed.

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Out in deep space the planets sweep, inexorable, along their splendid orbits. Maxine bowed her head. From now on she would take the gods' dictation.

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