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Laurie Lee has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like…
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But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or…
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The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one…
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Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took…
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For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.
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At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and…
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In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.
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All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only…
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The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the…
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I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.
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It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.
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The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished…
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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
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All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only…
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It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good…
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All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of…
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There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting…
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Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,…
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