"I was brought up Irish, where there was……" — P L Travers
"I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world."
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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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Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
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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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