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“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.”
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“When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.”
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“why do you write they ask / why do you breathe i ask.”
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“When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.”
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“I would rather feel the sword than behold it suspended.”
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“Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.”
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“... he started on the first page and finished on the last. He was not a skimmer or a sniffer; he read meticulously, as if, swimming, he were being filmed in slow motion.”
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“... the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.”