Top 18 Lloyd Jones Quotes

#1. A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum.

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#2. Dreams are nervy things - all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

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#3. I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didn't I knew what I preferred, and that was - I didn't want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.

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#4. Thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars.

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#5. I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.

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#6. Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

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#7. As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.

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#8. Quiet had a roof and it had walls around it, and you could sit inside it. She had never thought of silence as a place.One of the friends, Tom Williams told her,'the place is in your heart, Louise. Everything else is just clutter.

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#9. Above all, he said, white is a feeling.

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#10. We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

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#11. We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That's the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.

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#12. You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down your chin. Likewise, the language of Dickens makes your mouth do strange things, and when you're not used to his words your jaw will creak.

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#13. Some areas of life are not meant to overlap.

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#14. You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.

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#15. I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value of four walls and a roof. Something about containment that at the same time offers escape.

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#16. Dreams are private, she said. And she is right. A dream is a story that no one else will get to hear or read.

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#17. Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

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#18. Some stories will help you find happiness and truth. Some stories teach you not to make the same mistakes twice. These ones offer instructions.

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