Lewis Carroll
Author
1832-01-27
Books by Lewis Carroll
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Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Quotes by Lewis Carroll
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Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.
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For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a weekday. Do you think he cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the 'dim religious light' of some solemn cathedral?
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Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home? when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm. This time there could be no mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it any further. | So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. If it had grown up, she said to herself, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes a rather handsome pig, I think. And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, if one only knew the right way to change them-- when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
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You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.
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All right, said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
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When you come to any passage you don't understand, read it again: if you still don't understand it, read it again: if you fail, even after three readings, very likely your brain is getting a little tired. In that case, put the book away, and take to other occupations, and next day, when you come to it fresh, you will very likely find that it is quite easy.
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In most gardens they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep.
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To be sure I was!' Humpty Dumpty said gaily, as she turned it round forhim. 'I thought it looked a little queer. As I was saying, that SEEMSto be done right--though I haven't time to look it over thoroughly justnow--and that shows that there are three hundred and sixty-four dayswhen you might get un-birthday presents--'Certainly,' said Alice.And only ONE for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you!'I don't know what you mean by glory,' Alice said.Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't--till I tellyou. I meant there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'But glory doesn't mean a nice knock-down argument,' Alice objected.When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'itmeans just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so manydifferent things.'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master--that'sall.
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation
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But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?
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Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
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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.
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She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;
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What do you call yourself? the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!I wish I knew! thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, Nothing, just now.Think again, it said: that won't do.Alice thought, but nothing came of it. Please, would you tell me what you call yourself? she said timidly, I think that might help a little.I'll tell you, if you'll come a little further on, the Fawn said. I can't remember here.So they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms. I'm a Fawn! it cried out in a voice of delight. And dear me, you're a human child! A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed.
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And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?
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Where should I go? -Alice. That depends on where you want to end up. - The Cheshire Cat.
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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
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Must a name mean something? Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must, Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.
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Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impos
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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
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