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I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

source: Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition): The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )”, p.105, e-artnow

topic: Running, Believe, Night, Treasure Island

I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

- Andrew Motion

source: "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

topic: Islands, Treasure, Firsts, Sequels, Treasure Island

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