Keith Douglas quotes
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“Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.”
-- Keith DouglasSource : Keith Douglas (2014). “Alamein to Zem Zem”, p.18, Faber & Faber
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“Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor.”
-- Keith Douglas
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“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness”
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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“All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here”
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“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
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Source : Jeramey Kraatz, Adam Rex, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Tim Green (2012). “Class Acts Kids' Ebook Sampler”, p.55, Harper Collins
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