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Hilary McKay has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a…
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Don't call me darling. I'm a driving instructor!
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He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow…
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Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses…
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How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on…
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Once, when Tom was over here, to tease Rose, I asked him, "Before she was born, can you remember? Were things just…
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Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them…
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It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose,…
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Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?"…
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The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made…
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She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole…
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She had to go," said Rose. "It was because of her angel," said Indigo. "And because of Granddad," added Caddy. "And because…
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Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.
— Unknown Author
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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people…
— Stephen Spender
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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape,…
— Plato
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Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.
— Hermann Hesse
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Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work,…
— Richard Branson
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At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills…
— Stephen King
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With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away.…
— Andreas Feininger
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I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things,…
— Richard Lamm
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
— Sophocles
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Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that…
— Thomas Aquinas
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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
— Richard Dawkins
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