"You know how you let yourself think that……" — Richard Adams
"You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple."
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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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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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The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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