“I think I'll move to Australia.”
Judith Viorst book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Source: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
“In Australia
Inter alia,
Mediocrities
Think they’re Socrates.”
Quoted in Charles Osborne Giving It Away (London: Secker & Warburg, 1986) p. 114.
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Inter alia,
Mediocrities
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