Gerald Durrell Quotes

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• ‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.
• Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night…
• We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,'…
• Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized…
• I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
• In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.
• What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you…
• A house is not a home until it has a dog.

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