Norman Lindsay Quotes

• The best love affairs are those we never had.

  Norman Lindsay

  Love, Funny, Dream

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• Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

  Norman Lindsay

  Art, Inspiration, Agency

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• Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.

  Norman Lindsay

  Sex, Reason, Bases

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• A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.

  Norman Lindsay

  Men, Testicles, Exposed

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• 'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

  Norman Lindsay

  Smoking, Fur, Said

  Norman Lindsay (2006). “The Magic Pudding”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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