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

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Laurie Lee
Age: 82 †
Born: 1914
Born: June 26
Died: 1997
Died: May 13
Autobiographer
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Stroud
Gloucestershire
Wanted
Communicate
Seen
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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.
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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.
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For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.
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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.
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