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But I can't see how anyone could believe that you killed the bear with a pitchfork,' I said. 'I didn't. I only wounded it - badly, I think, but not enough to put it out of action. It came blundering towards me, I stepped aside and it crashed head-first into the river - I could hear it threshing about in the darkness. I picked up a big stone - poor brute, I hated to do it but I had to finish it off. It gave just one groan as the stone hit it and then went down. I held the lantern high; I could see the bubbles coming up. And then I saw the dark bulk of it under the water, being carried along by the current.' 'But you didn't have a lantern,' I said. 'He didn't have a bear,' said Topaz.


Dodie Smith


#i-capture-the-castle #humor

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.


Dodie Smith


#i-capture-the-castle #humor

... And they are like a drug, one needs them oftener and oftener and has to make them more and more exciting - until at last one's imagination won't work at all.


Dodie Smith


#imagination

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.


Peter Høeg


#lost #recapture #understand #snow

But Annabeth just smiled and put us in jail. As she was heading back to the front line, she turned and winked. "See you at the fireworks?" She didn't even wait for my answer before darting off into the woods. I looked at Beckendorf. "Did she just...ask me out?" He shrugged, completely disgusted. "Who knows with girls? Give me a haywire dragon, any day." So we sat together and waited while the girls won the game.


Rick Riordan


#capture-the-flag #charles-beckendorf #fireworks #percy-jackson #silena-beauregard

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.


Ansel Adams


#ago #am #any #aware #captured

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.


Charles Foster Bass


#almost #america #any #captured #considered

One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?


Roone Arledge


#abc news #attract #because #captured #dies

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.


Joan Armatrading


#inspiration #like #looking #out #rather

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.


Brigitte Bardot


#captured #cease #eternity #instant #life






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