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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Writer · English · 1832 – 1898

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Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice
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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.
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Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.
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I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
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I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !
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have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
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The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.
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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
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Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.
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But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!
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She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
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Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.
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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.
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One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
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Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
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Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.
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And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland
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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.
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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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Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!
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