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“I had been working there for several months [in New York], in that climate of intellectual openness which is so astonishing to an Australian...”

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Book:The First Stone

Source: The First Stone

“The two big cities of Australia are tonally as distinct from each other as Boston is from L.A. or Lyon from Marseilles.”

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“It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.”

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Book:Monkey Grip

Source: Monkey Grip

“Invisible magpies warbled in the plane trees. Softly, gently, never running out of melodic ideas, they perched among the leaves and spun out their endless tales.”

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Book:Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law

Source: Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law

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