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The pictures, with their ruddy light, Are changed to dust and ashes white, And I am left alone with night. (Lewis Carroll)
‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness. View quote
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Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you. View quote
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There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am. View quote
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Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. View quote
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I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. View quote
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Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream? View quote
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Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. View quote
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All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide. View quote
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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. View quote
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You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. (Lewis Carroll)
Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” "Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. "No, I give it up,” Alice replied: "What's the answer?” "I haven't the slightest idea,” said the Hatter. View quote
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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound. View quote
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know. View quote
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Do you suppose she's a wildflower? View quote
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And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. View quote
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But I dont want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you cant help that,' said the Cat. 'Were all mad here. Im mad. Youre mad.''How do you know Im mad' said Alice.'You must be, said the Cat. 'or you wouldnt have come here.' View quote
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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. View quote
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Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. View quote
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It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--... View quote
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When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. (Lewis Carroll)
at any rate, there's no harm in trying. View quote
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You've lost your muchness. View quote
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p>Finally my Hiawatha Tumbled all the tribe together, ('Grouped' is not the right expression), And, as happy chance would have it Did at last obtain a picture Where the faces all succeeded: Each came out a perfect likeness.Then they joined and all abused it, Unrestrainedly abused it, As the worst and ugliest picture They could possibly have dreamed of. 'Giving one such strange expressions - Sullen, stupid, pert expressions. Really any one would take us (Any one that did not know us) For the most unpleasant people! View quote
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If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take. View quote
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