A.a. Milne Quotes

How do you spell 'love'? - PigletYou don't spell it...you feel it. - Pooh

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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

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And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

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On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,and I have nothing else to do,I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who. - Winnie-the-Pooh

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Oh Tigger, where are your manners?I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

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Think, think, think.

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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

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I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.

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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

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No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

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Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

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Tut, Tut, looks like rain

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Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

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By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

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How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.

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[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.)

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Almost anyone can be an author, the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch?

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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

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We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.Even longer,' Pooh answered.” Winnie-the-Pooh

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How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

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Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.

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Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

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If you were a bird, and lived on high,You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by,You'd say to the wind when it took you away:That's where I wanted to go today!

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If you were a cloud, and sailed up there,You'd sail on the water as blue as air.And you'd see me here in the fields and say:Doesn't the sky look green today?

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It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

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Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit.“Hallo, Rabbit,” said Pooh dreamily.“Did you make that song up?”“Well, I sort of made it up,” said Pooh. “It isn’t Brain,” he went on humbly, “because You Know Why, Rabbit; but it comes to me sometimes.”“Ah!” said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them.

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In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life which the critic knows so well in W.C.1: and may even have the disastrous effect on the reader of taking him happily for a few hours out of his own real life in N.W.8. Why this should be a matter for regret I do not know; nor why realism in a novel is so much admired when realism in a picture is condemned as mere photography; nor, I might add, why drink and fornication should seem to bring the realist closer to real life than, say, golf and gardening.

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One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have some previous association for us; with the result that our thought is already shaped along certain lines before we have begun to follow it out. Again, a word may have various meanings, and our use of it in one sense may deceive our readers (or even ourselves) into supposing that we were using it in some other sense.

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Get out of my chair, dillhole!

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King John was not a good man,He had his little ways.And sometimes no one spoke to him,For days and days and days.

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

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He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.

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What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

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They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back.

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