"Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland……" — P L Travers
"Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?"
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22 Quotes by P L Travers
P L Travers has 22 quotes on this site.
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Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.
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For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I…
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Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?
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And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and…
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Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.
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More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.
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The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one,…
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If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the…
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Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied.…
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Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
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Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood…
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More Fairyland Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
— Louise Bogan
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When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away.…
— Josephine Baker
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On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug;…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to…
— Otto Weininger
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Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go…
— Edward Kasner
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Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.
— William Shakespeare
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There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept…
— Wilferd Peterson
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After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound…
— Will Rogers
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He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically…
— Wilferd Peterson
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in…
— Salman Rushdie
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