"For the first time I was learning how……" — Laurie Lee
"For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love."
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17 Quotes by Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee has 17 quotes on this site.
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What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild…
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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…
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But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we…
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The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are 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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We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.
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