Bill Peet Quotes
Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.
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The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).
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He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.
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We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.
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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.
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You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
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We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.
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Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it.
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I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.
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All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
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Language can do what it can’t say.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.
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Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
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Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.
