"Many human beings say that they enjoy the……" — Richard Adams
"Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it."
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28 Quotes by Richard Adams
Richard Adams has 28 quotes on this site.
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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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Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When…
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There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one…
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At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether…
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To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us…
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Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything…
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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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Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered,…
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Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable…
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