"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring,……" — Philip Reeve
"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea."
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14 Quotes by Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve has 14 quotes on this site.
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An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
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Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious…
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That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away:…
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he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of…
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But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of…
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The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.
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That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are…
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Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.
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Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't…
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You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But…
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Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle…
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I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to…
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side -…
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
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