Truman Capote
Author, Journalist
"She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo."
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Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place."
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time."
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
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"I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then"
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?"
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"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
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"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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"Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is."
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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
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"It would be so nice if something made sense for a change."
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"Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!"
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"So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality."
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""Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more.""
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"If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does."
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"Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction."
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"I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter."
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"It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky."
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"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
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"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see."
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"You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness."
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"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!"
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""Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense.""
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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
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