Caroline Llewellyn Quotes
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There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.
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If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.
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Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?
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A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
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Myth is someone else's religion.
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Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.
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... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.
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It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.