It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
A. A. MILNELet’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
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I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true.
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
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A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
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Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
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Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
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Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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If you were a bird, and lived on high, You’d lean on the wind when the wind came by, You’d say to the wind when it took you away: ‘That’s where I wanted to go today!
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Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.
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If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.
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