889 Quotes by Lewis Carroll

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    You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead – There were no birds to fly.

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    It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she.

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    Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature – at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes – is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.

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    A dream is not reality but who’s to say which is which?

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    Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast – And half believe it true.

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    Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you’re much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing’s impossible.

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    I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

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    If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, “without hard labour,” and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

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