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Miles Franklin Quotes

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Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman  (Miles Franklin Quotes) When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog  (Miles Franklin Quotes) ... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother  (Miles Franklin Quotes) ... we each have our fleeting hour  (Miles Franklin Quotes) Heed the spark or you may dread the fire  (Miles Franklin Quotes) It ain’t what things actually are, it’s all they stand for  (Miles Franklin Quotes) The way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it  (Miles Franklin Quotes) Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings  (Miles Franklin Quotes) There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible  (Miles Franklin Quotes) In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults  (Miles Franklin Quotes) Grandpa... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less  (Miles Franklin Quotes) There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right  (Miles Franklin Quotes) Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable  (Miles Franklin Quotes) It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years  (Miles Franklin Quotes) What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great  (Miles Franklin Quotes) It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it  (Miles Franklin Quotes) All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots  (Miles Franklin Quotes) It’s a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people  (Miles Franklin Quotes)