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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little,...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
P. L. TRAVERS
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw...
P. L. TRAVERS
I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
P. L. TRAVERS
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS
I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS
You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS
For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS
I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. MENCKEN
Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each o...
SHERI L. DEW
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
L. WOLFE GILBERT
If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government ...
L. RON HUBBARD
I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
L. RON HUBBARD
A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in sc...
L. RON HUBBARD
A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. RON HUBBARD
One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I ...
L. RON HUBBARD
A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of o...
L. RON HUBBARD
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went...
L. RON HUBBARD
When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by d...
L. RON HUBBARD
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w...
L. RON HUBBARD
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know ther...
L. RON HUBBARD