Top 100 Fennel Hudson Quotes
#2. You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.
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#3. Those who sprint might travel quicker, but we'll all end up in the same place at the end.
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#5. A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.
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#6. Change bothers me. I don't cope too well with fashions, fads and urban traffic lights.
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#7. Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.
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#8. Identity and self-belief: a courage that swells from within, borne of waters drunk deeply.
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#10. A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime's memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller's window.
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#11. Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.
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#12. Nature, in her untamed state, is savage and unrelenting.
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#13. Life. It's about adventure, of having a dream and following it.
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#14. The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.
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#15. Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.
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#16. There is a moment during every fight with a strong fish when you wonder whether it or you will win the battle.
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#17. As the natural world grows smaller, so too does its intensity and the size of the window through which it may be viewed.
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#18. What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.
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#19. Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can't see.
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#20. Lake water, even when boiled, has an effect on my digestive system similar to the movement of a hangman's trapdoor.
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#21. A perpetual world; a world within a world. Of my mind and outside my mind. The real world is the dream world.
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#22. The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.
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#24. Many people fear the unknown. They busy themselves at motorway speed so to excuse their lack of understanding of the world around them.
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#25. My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.
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#26. I wasn't born to fetch, or sit, or accept a beating. I'm here to be me, to write, and know my purpose.
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#27. You'll never find yourself anywhere other than where you are right now.
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#28. Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.
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#29. Preserve the spirit of a 'lost' age, when time moved slower.
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#30. The real world, in my opinion, exists in the countryside, where Nature goes about her quiet business and brings us greatest pleasure.
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#31. I'm in no hurry to do anything. I'll probably lie here for the rest of the day. (Great term, that, 'rest of the day'.)
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#32. In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.
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#33. If we spend enough time dreaming, then the dream might eventually become real.
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#34. The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.
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#35. Traditional angling is to escape the noise and one-upmanship of modern angling in favour of something simple and beautiful.
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#36. We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.
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#37. Traditional angling is a mindset. So,have you set your mind?
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#38. I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman's noose.
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#39. To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly.
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#40. Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'.
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#41. Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean's The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it's the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.
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#42. The promise of adventure is often more exciting than the adventure itself.
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#43. Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly.
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#44. There are some pools that woo us, as if in courtship. Others challenge, as if yearning a feisty relationship.
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#45. Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses.
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#46. It had been a long quest. Yet I was within casting distance of my dream.
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#47. Mine is a so-called vintage existence, anachronistic living, made all the more rewarding by keeping a raised eyebrow on the absurdities of modern life.
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#48. Like a snake on a rock, I have shed my skin and grown another. I feel reborn and ready to resume activities.
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#49. I'm a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There's no middle ground, only madness and sadness.
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#50. Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside.
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#52. Sounds simple, doesn't it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it's not as simple as it seems.
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#55. Life in the wild, as I'm observing, is about survival as much as pleasure.
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#56. Life, as I see it, wraps around us, even when we think we are firmly embracing it.
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#57. The world of water has a way of perpetuating myths and shrouding lakes in mystery.
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#58. Throughout history people have gazed at the skies in wonder. You only have to stand at the base of a church steeple to understand why.
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#59. I hear the tune within. And I hear it without.
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#60. Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people.
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#61. I propose that it only matters that you attempt to catch a fish. Doing so brings you close to nature.
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#62. Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back.
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#63. Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.
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#66. I cherish the ability to say I love something or someone without having to give reason.
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#67. Be oblivious to city high-rises, work-related stress and microwave popcorn.
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#69. I'm pretty sure I'm the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.
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#70. I like working among 'creative clutter'. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.
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#71. Some will say that searching for your dreams is like looking for unicorns in an emerald forest.
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#72. Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.
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#73. As with writing by candlelight, one's greatest ideas come from 'the flickering' between darkness and light.
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#74. It's better to run towards something good, than away from something bad.
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#75. Traditionalism is not fashionable. It is the dog-crawl to fashion's catwalk.
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#76. The ever-increasing weight of responsibilities that enmeshes our lives keeps us locked into the system. We become the pulse that keeps the beast alive, but the cost is our own lives. The natural world around us shrinks, crushed beneath the suffocating might of work.
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#77. Traditional angling is the antithesis of the modern specimen angling scene.
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#79. Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.
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#80. Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine's Day.
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#81. Dreams free us from normality. Daydreams, especially, take us somewhere between the real world and the dream world.
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#82. It's the special things close to home, and the breadth of life, that makes our time on this earth so valuable.
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#83. A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and communicate his personality to the world.
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#84. Nature, it seems, has a way of returning things to how they should be.
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#85. The more we try to control nature, the more imbalanced our world becomes.
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#86. A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.
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#87. A spectator would conclude that I was living in the past. But I was very much living in the present. My present.
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#89. It's important to believe in something, a spirit in things and a higher purpose. Something I call 'True Beauty'.
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#90. Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.
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#91. Cherish the moment and the time in which you live.
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#93. Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else's. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want.
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#94. I am circling, looking for something within my reach, but beyond my grasp.
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#95. As a child I would play with such imagination that the 'real' world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.
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#96. The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.
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#97. By the time you read this letter, these words will be those of the past. The me of now is gone.
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#98. I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.
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#99. Extreme circumstances can trigger the most powerful of responses.
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#100. There is a difference between 'off-limits' and those places you can visit without getting caught.
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