Laurie Lee Quotes

• For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

  Laurie Lee

  And Love, Firsts, Easier

  Laurie Lee (1969). “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning”

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• At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.

  Laurie Lee

  Best Love, Eye, Love Is

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• Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

  Laurie Lee

  Rain, Butterfly, Air

  Laurie Lee (1959). “The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England”

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• Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey.

  Laurie Lee

  Love, Girl, Morning

  'Day of these Days' (1947)

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• I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

  Laurie Lee

  Talking, Communicate, Wanted

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• All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

  Laurie Lee

  Blood, Civilization, Panic

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• It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

  Laurie Lee

  Miracle, Records, World

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• Los galeses no son como ningún otro pueblo de Gran Bretaña, y saben lo distintos que son. Son los celtas, la pequeña y dura raza oscura como el vino que fue la poseedora original de la isla, que nunca se mezcló con los invasores que llegaron más tarde del este, sino que fue lentamente expulsada hacia las montañas occidentales.

  Laurie Lee

  Wine, Dark, Islands

  Laurie Lee (2015). “I Can't Stay Long”, p.89, Penguin UK

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• In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.

  Laurie Lee

  Food, Garden, Vegetables

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• What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

  Laurie Lee

  Country, Flower, Teaching

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• In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

  Laurie Lee

  Animal, Men, Secret

  Laurie Lee (2015). “I Can't Stay Long”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

  Laurie Lee

  Years, Kitchen, Growing

  Laurie Lee (1959). “The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England”

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• The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.

  Laurie Lee

  Hombres, Pensar, Manos

  Laurie Lee (2011). “Cider With Rosie”, p.36, Random House

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• I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

  Laurie Lee

  Age, Three, Terror

  'Cider with Rosie' (1959) p. 9

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• We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

  Laurie Lee

  Father, Three, Left

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• Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

  Laurie Lee

  Strong, Horse, Feet

  1959 Cider With Rosie,'The Uncles'.

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