Joseph Furphy Quotes

• Age cannot limit him, nor use exhaust his infinite mendacity.

  Joseph Furphy

  Age, Use, Limits

  Joseph Furphy (2001). “The Buln-Buln and the Brolga”

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• 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

  Joseph Furphy

  Party, Expression, Play

  Joseph Furphy (2016). “Such is Life”, p.342, Joseph Furphy

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• Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

  Joseph Furphy

  Art, Player, Stories

  Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”

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• Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.

  Joseph Furphy

  Wisdom, Fate, Alternatives

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