Quote by Timothy Findley

““I can't work in a house where there's saints. The minute there's saints, the devil sends messengers””

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Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.

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He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

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There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay…

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“I have dreamt of a life you will never know; the life of a loving and caring companion. I simply thought you should know.…

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“You will live when you live. No one else can ever live your life and no one else will ever know what you know...”

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Complaints about reality are immature.

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In the dark that followed - Lucy said; "where I was born, the trees were always in the sun. And I left that place…

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“With Tom, there had never been a door to close, only the grass to lie on, never a bed; no walls, no ceiling to…

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I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

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“Rodwell wandered into No Man's Land and put a bullet through his ears. On Sunday, Robert sat on his bed in the old hotel…

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They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.

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“When Mrs Ross asked him what he was thinking of, he shrugged. But he was thinking of the time he'd climbed the steeple of…

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