D.E. Stevenson Quotes

#1. What fools the public were! They were exactly like sheep ... thought Mr. Abbott sleepily ... following each other's lead, neglecting one book and buying another just because other people were buying it, although, for the life of you, you couldn't see what the one lacked and the other possessed.

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#2. There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

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#3. The strangest thing in all man's travelling is that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only who is foreign, and now and then, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the earth.

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#4. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

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#5. To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life ...

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#6. Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.

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#7. In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.

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#8. There are very few people in the world with courage enough to admit that they do not care for music (dogs and children come into the same category) and so brand themselves forever as Philistines in the eyes of their friends.

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#9. If strangers see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they don't know who you are. And if your friends see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they know who you are.

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#10. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

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#11. Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise - Vivian

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#12. Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

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#13. Excepting Will," Mrs. Bulloch amended. "Such an affront to put upon ye, Thomas! Yon man'll not enjoy heaven if he gets there." "He'll

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#14. Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.

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#15. It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.

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#16. Some people's elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood - common

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#17. Some people travel all over the world and see nothing. They go about clad in a thick fog of their own making through which no impressions can penetrate.

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#18. It is curious but true that those who make a habit of saying unkind things are often the most easily hurt and offended when their victims retaliate.

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#19. Books are people,' smiled Miss Marks. 'In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.

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#20. That's what I was meaning. Ye've got to have freedom first. It's no use believing what other folks say; the only thing is for each man to fend for himself, Mr. Darnay. Each man standing on his own feet, finding his own path - " "Grand!

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#21. Clocks need a man to keep them in proper subjection.)

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#22. If talent is a natural aptitude for creation with an outlook on life peculiar to oneself, then genius is to have an outlook on life, peculiar to oneself, which yet appeals to everybody. Talent is for oneself and a few others, but genius is universal.

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