"Trouble trouble and it will trouble you."

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Source : P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

P. L. Travers

#Trouble Quotes

“I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.”
“There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.”
“Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.”
“I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.”
“[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.”
“When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to think about professors, where I didn't have to think about much of anything other than my own practice.”
“A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.”
“Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you dont want to face.”

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