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Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

Alan Alexander Milne

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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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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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

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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.

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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

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

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No sensible author wants anything but praise.

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Tiggers don't like honey.

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