Penelope Wilcock Quotes

#1. Down the avenue of trees I can see a spot of sunlight. I'm trying so hard to get there.

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#2. Silence is full of speech.

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#3. The great cause of fiction is to weave a bag to carry truth.

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#4. There is no healing without hope. Despair is life's direst enemy. Despair is living death.

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#5. Did God mind that dreadful singing, he who made the nightingale and the lark? Probably not. Probably it was the soul of Mrs Crabtree he was listening to, the worshipping song of her heart, and that rang true as a bell.

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#6. It was one of those brief spells of complete happiness that come once in a rare while, an unlooked for gift of God, when the forces of darkness, of sorrow and temptation seem miraculously held back, a breathing space in the battle.

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#7. Sometimes thoughts merely pass through a man's head without mishap, but sometimes they fall out of his mouth on the way through.

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#8. the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it.

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#9. As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that 'empty' was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There

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