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Michael Leunig Quotes

Two’s company and three’s a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough Picture Quote #1

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years Picture Quote #1

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity Picture Quote #1

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it’s the sun creeping up over the horizon Picture Quote #1

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It’s so impressive what they do with their bodies. It’s like painting: an abstraction Picture Quote #1

The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it’s better not to touch Picture Quote #1

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I must warn you right here and now that I am a ‘wet leftie,’ a ‘leftist’ and also a member of the ‘bleeding heart liberal left.’ I had no say in it whatsoever. I woke up one morning, and these things were tattooed across my forehead Picture Quote #1

Two’s company and three’s a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough Picture Quote #1

To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of ‘finishing school’ where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don’t know Picture Quote #1

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing Picture Quote #1

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all Picture Quote #1

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo Picture Quote #1

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If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother Picture Quote #1

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world Picture Quote #1

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon Picture Quote #1

In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science Picture Quote #1

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis Picture Quote #1

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days Picture Quote #1

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There is some suffering that awaits us all Picture Quote #1

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth Picture Quote #1

Wars don’t happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people’s hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire Picture Quote #1

I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit Picture Quote #1

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new Picture Quote #1

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Two’s company and three’s a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough (Michael Leunig Quotes) A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years. (Michael Leunig Quotes) There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity (Michael Leunig Quotes) I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it’s the sun creeping up over the horizon (Michael Leunig Quotes) I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It’s so impressive what they do with their bodies. It’s like painting: an abstraction. (Michael Leunig Quotes) The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it’s better not to touch. (Michael Leunig Quotes) I must warn you right here and now that I am a ‘wet leftie,’ a ‘leftist’ and also a member of the ‘bleeding heart liberal left.’ I had no say in it whatsoever. I woke up one morning, and these things were tattooed across my forehead. (Michael Leunig Quotes) Two’s company and three’s a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough. (Michael Leunig Quotes) To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of ‘finishing school’ where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don’t know. (Michael Leunig Quotes) As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing. (Michael Leunig Quotes) In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all. (Michael Leunig Quotes) In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo (Michael Leunig Quotes) If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. (Michael Leunig Quotes) The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world (Michael Leunig Quotes) Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon. (Michael Leunig Quotes) In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science. (Michael Leunig Quotes) Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis. (Michael Leunig Quotes) Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days. (Michael Leunig Quotes) There is some suffering that awaits us all (Michael Leunig Quotes) In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth (Michael Leunig Quotes) Wars don’t happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people’s hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire (Michael Leunig Quotes) I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit (Michael Leunig Quotes) Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new (Michael Leunig Quotes)

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