Astrid Lindgren Quotes

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• If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.
• If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.
• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
• And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child…
• Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.
• What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.
• I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.
• I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
• There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.
• I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in…
• I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead…
• Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
• Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she…
• But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?
• No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to…
• But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
• At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai.…
• Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!
• You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you…
• As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and…

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