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"A Town Like Alice" Quotes
By Nevil Shute
fiction | 286 pages | Published in 1981
Quotes
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
It's a woman's business to be interested in clothes!
Have you ever noticed how, oftentimes, when you get something you want, it's not nearly as good as you thought it would be?
It's a bit difficult to explain things when you're tied up, but at least you're held still and have to listen.
War has a way of bringing out the worst in people.
Sometimes strength is hidden beneath the surface.
You'll find that it takes a person of strong character to be able to be alone.
Love can survive even the most challenging circumstances.
In all the history books I have found, there's never been an account of a woman leading a thousand women in a jungle march to defeat the enemy.