Avi Quotes

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• The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts
• A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have…
• It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.
• I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I…
• The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.
• I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...'…
• A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.
• Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she…
• There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see.
• All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.
• For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!
• It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with…
• There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.
• People are freer in America. But there are more tears.
• Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I…
• When I went to high school, I wanted to be a designer of airplanes. But flunking out of the science high school brought me to…
• For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My…
• In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.
• Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
• To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a…

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