"What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?"

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Source : P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

P. L. Travers

#Stars Quotes #Gold Quotes #Paper Quotes

“If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.”
“Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.”
“I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.”
“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”

Source : "Lindbergh". Book by A. Scott Berg, p. 3, 1998.
“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.”
“What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?”

Source : Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.17, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
“No, I donâ€™t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you donâ€™t know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.”
“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.”

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