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Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

Kylie Tennant

In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.

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When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?

Kylie Tennant

Kylie Tennant

Kylie Tennant

Born: March 12, 1912

Died: February 28, 1988 (aged 75)

Bio: Kathleen Kylie Tennant was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer and historian.

Known for:

The man on the headland (1971)
Ride on Stranger (1943)
Foveaux (1939)
All the Proud Tribesmen (1959)
Tiburon (1935)

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