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The Familiar
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“Never refuse wine, Luzia. You don’t know when you may be offered it again.”
“No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.”
― In a Sunburned Country
― In a Sunburned Country
“I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.”
― In a Sunburned Country
― In a Sunburned Country
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