"It's good to focus on the universal suffering……" — Michael Morpurgo
"It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering."
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70 Quotes by Michael Morpurgo
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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…
- We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether…
- There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
- Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
- But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.
- Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I…
- Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
- I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not…
- Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than…
- A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you…
- I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
- Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because…
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