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Quotes from The Flame Trees of Thika — Elspeth Huxley

1907–1997 Kenya

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How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

The Flame Trees of Thika (1959)

Nothing happened — and that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.

The Flame Trees of Thika (1959)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elspeth Huxley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.