"Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat……" — P L Travers
"Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied. And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon." Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?" The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before. And suddenly it occured to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons."
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22 Quotes by P L Travers
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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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Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
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