"At that moment, in the sunset on Watership……" — Richard Adams
"At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him."
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28 Quotes by Richard Adams
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All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill…
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You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a…
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Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.
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We all have to meet our match sometime or other.
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I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who…
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Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?
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The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.
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