"Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older."

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Source : "Gorilla artist Anthony Browne becomes children's laureate" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2009.

Anthony Browne

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“Stop Learning and start thinking.”
“I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”
“There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.”

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“I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.”
“Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living”
“To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.”
“But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.”
“Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"”

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