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the bush boy Quotes

Five of the best book quotes from the bush boy
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“In the bush boy’s laughter he’d found something he liked: a lifeline he didn’t intend to lose.”
James Vance Marshall
author
Walkabout
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Peter (Walkabout)
the bush boy
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“The three children stood looking at each other in the middle of the Australian desert. Motionless as the outcrops of granite they stared, and stared, and stared. Between them the distance was less than the spread of an outstretched arm, but more than a hundred thousand years.”
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“It was very different with the Aboriginal. He knew what reality was.”
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“The guilt that the little boy had started to feel, melted away. At first apologetically, then whole-heartedly, he too started to laugh. The barrier of twenty thousand years vanished in the twinkling of an eye.”
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“Peter was by no means perturbed. On the contrary he felt flattered; proud. He realized that the bush boy had never seen anything like him before.”

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