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Tove Jansson has 71 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was…
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One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey.
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One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.
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I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.
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A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking,…
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Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a…
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Storms probably exist only because after them we can have a sunrise.
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There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for…
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One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.
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Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the…
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Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that…
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Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
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Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins…
— Sofia Vergara
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No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.
— Tori Amos
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Aye, tough mermaids are, the lot of them.
— Blackbeard
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She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through…
— Neil Gaiman
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Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!
— Mario
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I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.
— Brian Selznick
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Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
— Gemma Ward
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Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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