Doe Quote by Chris Priestley

“Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.” quote by Chris Priestley — Download Open image

“Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.”

Chris Priestley

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Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

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“But she was no guardian angel. She was not trying to help me at all. She had been trying to claim me as she had claimed the lives of my fellow passengers. She was the thing that remained forever unseen in my visions of her tales. She lurked near the bodies of those whose whose lives were so cruelly taken.…

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“She had the the most extraordinary capacity for falling asleep at a moments notice. Any kind of pause in the routine was an excuse for a nap. I swear she was more cat than human.”

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From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

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“In my confused state I wondered if I had not died and gone to hell. And if this was the case, I wished that…

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“Does something amuse you?' asked Uncle Montague. 'I was merely reminding myself, Uncle, that I am getting too old to be so easily frightened…

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“I stood a little self-consciously. I was of an age when I was still unsure of myself in such formal matters as greetings and…

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“it strikes me that the whole world runs on theft of one kind or another.”

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“Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.”

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