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Michael Morpurgo has 70 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.…
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was…
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There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.
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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the…
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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
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Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war…
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A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to…
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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like…
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on…
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I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit…
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Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I don't really know what 'selling out' is exactly. I would sell out if I could, but nobody's buying it. I would…
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By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
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I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.
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Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement…
— Ellen G. White
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm…
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