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“A true man controls his environment, subject to no obsessive desires.”
― In the Hour Before Midnight: A Thriller
― In the Hour Before Midnight: A Thriller
“Class in most places is about making the differences visible," say novelist Richard Flanagan, who grew up in a working-class mining community before receiving a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. "Class in Australia is about making the differences invisible".”
― Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
― Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
“The Ouroboros teaches us that growth and transformation come from embracing our own darkness and integrating it into our being.”
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“It all changed," he says. "The miners in Ipswich joined a union and voted Labor. But young ones coming through didn't think of themselves as working class. They moved to the Sunny Coast. Four-bedroom house. Couple of cars. Most of them became anti-union! Dumb fucks thought they got paid 200k just because they're good at their jobs. Nothin' to do with my generation and my dad's generation, and the sacrifices we made by going on strike”
― Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
― Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
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