"Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be"

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Quintin Jardine

#Trying Quotes #Storyteller Quotes

“An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.”
“I've always just been really interesting in humans, whether I knew it or not, back then. To be able to recreate that and express that was definitely something I wanted to do.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.”
“Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.”
“Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.”
“She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he felt when he thought of that year they spent together, or if he ever marveled at what they'd shared, or even whether he thought of her at all.”
“Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.”

Source : "Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.
“Any chance heâ€™s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?â€ â€œAbout as likely as me doing it.â€ Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. â€œI put him at the top of the list.”

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