Laurie Lee Quotes

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• What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to…
• Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the…
• But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it…
• The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was…
• Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled…
• For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.
• At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through…
• In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.
• All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged…
• The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark…
• I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.
• It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.
• We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.
• That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
• I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.
• I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.
• I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy…

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