Richard Adams Quotes

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• I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

  Richard Adams

  Thinking, Suffering, Rabbits

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

  Richard Adams

  Fall, Trying, Needs

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• To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.

  Richard Adams

  Memories, Heart, Clouds

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.59, Oneworld Publications

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• All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

  Richard Adams

  People, Enemy, Warning

  "Watership Down". www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

  Richard Adams

  Cutting, Size, Strange

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

  Richard Adams

  Simple, Thinking, Certain

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.135, Oneworld Publications

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• I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

  Richard Adams

  Flower, Sky, Two

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• A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

  Richard Adams

  Desperate, Being True, Folly

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.94, Oneworld Publications

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• Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

  Richard Adams

  Animal, Men, Earth

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.129, Oneworld Publications

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• We all have to meet our match sometime or other.

  Richard Adams

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other.

  Richard Adams

  Dog, Cat, Jealous

  Richard Adams (2015). “The Plague Dogs”, p.160, Oneworld Publications

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• Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.

  Richard Adams

  Loss, Animal, Past

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.136, Oneworld Publications

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• I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Book, Want

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• Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

  Richard Adams

  People, Tricks, Cunning

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.36, Oneworld Publications

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• If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

  Richard Adams

  Advice, Rabbits, Accepted

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.302, Oneworld Publications

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• Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Pain, Doe

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.187, Oneworld Publications

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• One cloud feels lonely.

  Richard Adams

  Lonely, Clouds, Feeling Lonely

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.149, Oneworld Publications

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• Our children's children will hear a good story.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Stories, Our Children

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.370, Simon and Schuster

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• People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

  Richard Adams

  People, Bird, Records

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.112, Oneworld Publications

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• Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.

  Richard Adams

  Fate, Rabbits, Needs

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.92, Oneworld Publications

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• Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

  Richard Adams

  Thinking, Survival, Usual

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.155, Oneworld Publications

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• They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

  Richard Adams

  Fear, Not Afraid, Council

  Richard Adams (1996). “Watership Down”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

  Richard Adams

  Men, Garden, Way

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.133, Oneworld Publications

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• If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

  Richard Adams

  Want, Bless, Holes

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.35, Oneworld Publications

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• I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

  Richard Adams

  Thinking, Years, Majority

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