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Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

Alan Alexander Milne

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

Anything Praise Sensible Sensible Author Wants

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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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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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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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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

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Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-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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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Alan Alexander Milne

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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