Lewis Carroll
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Biography
"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
"But I don’t want to go among mad people,"Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help that,"said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""How do you know I’m mad?"said Alice."You must be,"said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here."
"Begin at the beginning,"the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.""I don't much care where –""Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."
"Curiouser and curiouser!"
"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."
"Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!"
"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!"
"have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are."
"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
"Take some more tea,"the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly."I've had nothing yet,"Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more.""You mean you can't take less,"said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing.""Nobody asked your opinion,"said Alice."
"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round."
"Where should I go?"-Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up."- The Cheshire Cat."
"And what is the use of a book,"thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"
"I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then."
"Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!"
"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."
"Then you should say what you mean,"the March Hare went on. "I do,"Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know.""Not the same thing a bit!"said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat"is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!"
"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."
"Cat: Where are you going?Alice: Which way should I go?Cat: That depends on where you are going.Alice: I don’t know.Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go."
"It would be so nice if something made sense for a change."