- Lewis Carroll
(01/27/1832 – 01/14/1898)
English writer
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"That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day."
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"I should never have switched from
Scotch to Martinis."
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"I must have had rocks in my head."
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"We don't see things as they are,
we see them as we are."
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"Everybody is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure."
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"If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better."
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"Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?"
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"When Mr. Wilbur calls his play 'Halfway to Hell,' he underestimates the distance."
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"There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense."
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"Nobody ever learns how. The search for human behavior is infinite. You'll never understand it all. I think that's wonderful."
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"Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live."
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