Lewis Carroll: You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.

Lewis Carroll

courses dream relationship

Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.' And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about - whenever the wind blows.

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quilts nice summer

Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

Lewis Carroll

race writing average

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Lewis Carroll

cute inspirational funny

I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.

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flower believe book

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

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soup food beautiful

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

Lewis Carroll

alliteration beast motive

I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up.

Lewis Carroll

covered-up girl boys

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.

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wonderland different mean

It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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cooking roots food

I am fond of children - except boys.

Lewis Carroll

girl boys children

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

Lewis Carroll

wonderland philosophical running

My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

Lewis Carroll

next views impossible

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Lewis Carroll

creativity discovery men

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

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voice brave courage

To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.

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glasses queens hands

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

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nonsense wonderland sound

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

Lewis Carroll

verdict sentences firsts

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Lewis Carroll

twelve twenties trying

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Lewis Carroll

wonderland way travel