There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
BEATRIX POTTERI cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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