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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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These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that.…
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Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.
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I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down…
— Woody Guthrie
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your…
— Rudyard Kipling
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But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet,…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out…
— Michael Morpurgo
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I begged Batushka not to start this war. I know who dies. You don't die, the people die. The wise old men,…
— Grigori Rasputin
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