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• What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

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  Autobiography

  Miles Franklin (2012). “My Career Goes Bung”, p.28, Allen & Unwin

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• Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.

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  Bullying, Mean, Men

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• 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.

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  People, Age, Would Be

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.80, ETT Imprint

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• the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

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  Desire, Way, Condemnation

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

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  Bible, People, Coward

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

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  Atheist, Heart, Atheism

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.81, The Floating Press

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• 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.

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  Children, Clever, Careers

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

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  Selfish, Views, Shoes

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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