“To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea:
“There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
“Well,” said Owl, “the customary procedure in such cases is as follows.” “What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?” said Pooh. “For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from The World of Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne
Born place: in Hampstead, London, England, The United Kingdom
Born date January 18, 1882
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“If he expected an answer - and he wasn't certain that he didn't - he was disappointed. He told himself he had imagined the voice in the wind. The Windigo was a myth.
But there was a part of him that knew different. Sam Winter Moon has cautioned him long ago that it was best to believe in all possibilities, that there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.”
― William Kent Krueger, quote from Iron Lake
“I've never seen or touched anything."
"Can you explain then how you had children?"
"You're right. It's true I have four kids. Four! But still I have never seen the male organ. He came into the bedroom, he turned off the light, and then Bam! Bam! Bam! and voila I was pregnant! What's more, I was granted four girls. So I have never seen penises.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life.”
― Ben Fountain, quote from Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“They were just bones, bones in a box, but their bones were his bones,
and he stood as close to the bones as he could, as though the proximity
might link him up with them and mitigate the isolation born of losing his
future and reconnect him with all that had gone. For the next hour and a
half, those bones were the things that mattered most. They were all that
mattered, despite the impingement of the neglected cemetery's environment
of decay. Once he was with those bones he could not leave them, couldn't
not talk to them, couldn't but listen to them when they spoke. Between him
and those bones there was a great deal going on, far more than now
transpired between him and those still clad in their flesh.”
― Philip Roth, quote from Everyman
“Of course, I failed in several of the areas I invaded, but it is true that one learns more from a failure than one does from a success.”
― Truman Capote, quote from Music for Chameleons
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