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Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

Alan Alexander Milne

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

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Tiggers don't like honey.

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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief – call it what you will – than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.

I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples… but often, environmentalism is used to blackmail companies.

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

'Washio' provides laundry and dry cleaning on demand. They pick it up, clean it, and return it within 24 hours – and often with a cookie. No more forgetting to pick up the dry-cleaning or wasting time in line.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people – like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

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