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Not who you're looking for? Others named Treasure Island: 1883 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson · 1920 film by Maurice Tourneur · 1934 film directed by Victor Fleming · 1966 television film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Treasure Island is a 1971 Soviet adventure film directed by Yevgeni Fridman.
“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”
“The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.”
“I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name.”
“The commonplaces are the great poetic truths.”
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