Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
Quotes to Explore
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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Flowers are happy things.
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I would read all day if I could.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
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I know what I've been through in my career, things no-one else knows.
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Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.
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I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.
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Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
