Top 21 Chris Priestley Quotes
#1. Is this her death I'm looking at? Or her life? And which is worse?
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#2. Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.
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#3. Because soldiers aren't really brave, they follow orders. Soldiers do as they told. They're not heroes. There are no real heroes, son. It depends on whose telling the story.
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#4. In my confused state I wondered if I had not died and gone to hell. And if this was the case, I wished that I had been allowed more opportunities to sin, for this seemed a rather excessive judgement on what had been a frankly dull and blameless life. But I was not dead. I could see that now.
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#5. I stood a little self-consciously. I was of an age when I was still unsure of myself in such formal matters as greetings and partings.
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#7. Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?'
'What harm is there?' said the giant.
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#8. For nothing is deader than a body that once had life and has it no more.
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#10. I don't want to be rich. I'm not interested in money. Well, not money for the sake of it. I just want more life than Mother and Father want. Don't you ever want more? - Frank
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#11. Why is it childish to want something better? asked Frank sulkily. It's like pretending to be content is the same as actually being content. I'm not going to pre tent. - Frank
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#12. They were streetwalkers, women who sold themselves for money to men- good, God-fearing men who went to church with their wives the following Sunday without a care.
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#13. From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
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#14. Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.
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#15. Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
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#16. What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope.
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#17. I would sometimes see them among the trees, as I did this particular day. They did not come near and never said a word. They stood silently among the shadows.
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#18. But I am English and have spent my life at one of the finest schools in the country. I could take a beating.
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#19. She had the the most extraordinary capacity for falling asleep at a moments notice. Any kind of pause in the routine was an excuse for a nap. I swear she was more cat than human.
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#20. Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive.
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#21. The school reports say you don't concentrate. But you don't concentrate because you are thinking. They don't understand that. They think intelligence is all about soaking up knowledge. But true intelligence- the intelligence that really counts- is the ability to interpret facts to make them you own.
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