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Laurie Lee quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

Laurie Lee quotes: Eulalia turned and smiled at me brilliantly, showing her tongue, her face cracking open like a brown snake's egg hatching.

Eulalia turned and smiled at me brilliantly, showing her tongue, her face cracking open like a brown snake's egg hatching.

Laurie Lee quotes: I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

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

Laurie Lee quotes: In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

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

Laurie Lee quotes: Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.

Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.

Laurie Lee quotes: Wilde said he felt sorry for those who never got their heart's desire, but sorrier still for those who did.

Wilde said he felt sorry for those who never got their heart's desire, but sorrier still for those who did.

Laurie Lee quotes: That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

Laurie Lee quotes: It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

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

Laurie Lee quotes: We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

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

Laurie Lee quotes: For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

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

Laurie Lee quotes: It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

Laurie Lee quotes: She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.

She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.

Laurie Lee quotes: Country schooling was little more than a cane-wacking interlude in which boys picked up facts like bruises and the girls scarcely counted at all ...

Country schooling was little more than a cane-wacking interlude in which boys picked up facts like bruises and the girls scarcely counted at all ...

Laurie Lee quotes: I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

Laurie Lee quotes: God's codpiece, you're very kind

God's codpiece, you're very kind