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 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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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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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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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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Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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It's pretty sad that when people see a guy buying flowers, they assume he's in trouble.
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The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.
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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.
