"Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night."

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Source : Philip Reeve (2011). “Fever Crumb”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.

Philip Reeve

#Philosophical Quotes #Night Quotes #People Quotes

“Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.”
“He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.”
“For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.”
“The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.”
“The avarice of mankind is insatiable.”
“"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.”
“For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.”
“A good poet's made as well as born.”

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