George Fetherling quotes
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“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall”
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“Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.”
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“Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes.”
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“I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.”
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“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
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“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
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“Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."”
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“People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.”
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“Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.”
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“A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.”
Source : Adelbert von Chamisso (1845). “The Shadowless Man; Or, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl”
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“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
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